Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Quote by George Santayana
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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George Santayana Quotes
- Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
- The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
- Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
- Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
- The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
- Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
- Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
- Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
- Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
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- The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
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