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| George Santayana
America is a young country with an old mentality. An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. And the old man who will not laugh is a fool. Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism. Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. Sanity is a madness put to good uses. The family is one of nature's masterpieces. The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed. The wisest mind has something yet to learn.The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. |
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