George Santayana Quotes About Optimism
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I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.
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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
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Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.
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