That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed… — George Santayana

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress · 1905
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Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2011, bk. 1, ch. 10. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.