George Santayana
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.