Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification
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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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The little word is has its tragedies it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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