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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Goal, Effort
The Life of Reason vol. 1, introduction (1905)

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

George Santayana
Prayer, Effort, Range
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.132, 谷月社

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

George Santayana
Prayer, People, Effort
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.138, 谷月社

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

George Santayana
Art, Interesting, Effort
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.320, 谷月社

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

George Santayana
Effort, Mind, Age
George Santayana (1932). “The Life of Reason”, p.74, Library of Alexandria

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