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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
~ George Santayana Quote

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
~ George Santayana Quote

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
~ George Santayana Quote

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
~ George Santayana Quote

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
~ George Santayana Quote

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
~ George Santayana Quote

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
~ George Santayana Quote

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
~ George Santayana Quote

It is wisdom to believe the heart.
~ George Santayana Quote

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of other
~ George Santayana Quote

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
~ George Santayana Quote

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
~ George Santayana Quote

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
~ George Santayana Quote

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.
~ George Santayana Quote

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
~ George Santayana Quote