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• Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
• Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. -- George Santayana
• My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
  -- George Santayana...
• America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. -- George Santayana
• Sanity is a madness put to good use. -- George Santayana
• Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect. -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
• Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. George Santayana
• The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.
  -- George Santayana (1863-1952) "The Life of Reason" (1905-1906)...
• The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
  -- George Henry Lewe...