George Santayana Quotes
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~ 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.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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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.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of other
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
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England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
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Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
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A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
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Art is a delayed echo.
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
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Work and love - these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
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Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
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Depression is rage spread thin.
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
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If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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If all the arts aspire to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out, and minutely articulated.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
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There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
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