George Santayana
Quotations
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“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.” -George Santayana
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“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.” -George Santayana
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“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.” -George Santayana
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“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.” -George Santayana
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“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.” -George Santayana
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“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.” -George Santayana
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“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.” -George Santayana
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“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.” -George Santayana
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“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.” -George Santayana
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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.” -George Santayana
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“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.” -George Santayana
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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.” -George Santayana
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“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.” -George Santayana
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“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.” -George Santayana
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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.” -George Santayana
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“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.” -George Santayana
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“Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.” -George Santayana
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“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.” -George Santayana
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“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.” -George Santayana
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“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.” -George Santayana
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“Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.” -George Santayana
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“Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.” -George Santayana
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“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.” -George Santayana
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“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” -George Santayana
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“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” -George Santayana
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“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.” -George Santayana
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“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.” -George Santayana
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“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.” -George Santayana
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“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” -George Santayana
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“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
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“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.” -George Santayana
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“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” -George Santayana
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“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.” -George Santayana
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“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.” -George Santayana
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“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.” -George Santayana
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“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.” -George Santayana
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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.” -George Santayana
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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.” -George Santayana
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“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.” -George Santayana
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“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.” -George Santayana
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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
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana
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