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George Santayana quotes: Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana quotes: The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
George Santayana quotes: The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana quotes: The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana quotes: It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
George Santayana quotes: Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet.Habit is stronger than reason. Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet.
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana quotes: A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana quotes: Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana quotes: The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon. The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
George Santayana quotes: Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana quotes: Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pineThat lights the pathway but one step aheadAcross a void of mystery and dread. Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread.
George Santayana quotes: For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing. For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
George Santayana quotes: Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely. Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.
George Santayana quotes: Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
George Santayana quotes: With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
George Santayana quotes: Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
George Santayana quotes: All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.
George Santayana quotes: For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
George Santayana quotes: So in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed. So in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.
George Santayana quotes: There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair. There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.
George Santayana quotes: Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana quotes: Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. 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 quotes: Oaths are the fossils of piety. Oaths are the fossils of piety.
George Santayana quotes: Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George Santayana quotes: The wisest mind hath something yet to learn. The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.
George Santayana quotes: To turn events into ideas is the function of literature. To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
George Santayana quotes: The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
George Santayana quotes: The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
George Santayana quotes: Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
George Santayana quotes: Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment. Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
George Santayana quotes: It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.
George Santayana quotes: Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center. Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
George Santayana quotes: The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana quotes: There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with. There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
George Santayana quotes: It is wisdom to believe the heart. It is wisdom to believe the heart.
George Santayana quotes: Nothing is so irrevocable as mind. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
George Santayana quotes: Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
George Santayana quotes: We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
George Santayana quotes: The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity. The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
George Santayana quotes: I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana quotes: Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
George Santayana quotes: By obedience and self-control come to your full stature; be in fact what you are in possibility; satisfy By obedience and self-control come to your full stature; be in fact what you are in possibility; satisfy
George Santayana quotes: In Greece wise men speak and fools decide. In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana quotes: Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs. Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.
George Santayana quotes: Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked. Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
George Santayana quotes: It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
George Santayana quotes: To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
George Santayana quotes: The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him. The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.
George Santayana quotes: Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
George Santayana quotes: Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
George Santayana quotes: He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
George Santayana quotes: Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
George Santayana quotes: The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana quotes: It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana quotes: It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination. It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.
George Santayana quotes: Consciousness is a born hermit. Consciousness is a born hermit.
George Santayana quotes: Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ... Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ...
George Santayana quotes: Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
George Santayana quotes: The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
George Santayana quotes: He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel) He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)
George Santayana quotes: The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies. The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.
George Santayana quotes: That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
George Santayana quotes: Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana quotes: The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
George Santayana quotes: What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
George Santayana quotes: The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
George Santayana quotes: Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
George Santayana quotes: All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced. All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.
George Santayana quotes: As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends. As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.
George Santayana quotes: Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.
George Santayana quotes: Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.
George Santayana quotes: The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life. The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.
George Santayana quotes: The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana quotes: In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
George Santayana quotes: Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
George Santayana quotes: Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy. Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
George Santayana quotes: Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana quotes: The worship of power is an old religion. The worship of power is an old religion.
George Santayana quotes: The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
George Santayana quotes: To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. 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 quotes: The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
George Santayana quotes: To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana quotes: Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana quotes: The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
George Santayana quotes: A simple life is its own reward. A simple life is its own reward.
George Santayana quotes: It is a great bond to dislike the same things. It is a great bond to dislike the same things.
George Santayana quotes: The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana quotes: I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world. I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
George Santayana quotes: Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
George Santayana quotes: What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like? What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?
George Santayana quotes: Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
George Santayana quotes: It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
George Santayana quotes: The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms. The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.
George Santayana quotes: Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself. Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
George Santayana quotes: Man is as full of potential as he is of importance. Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
George Santayana quotes: There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.
George Santayana quotes: My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule. My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.
George Santayana quotes: All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
George Santayana quotes: The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything. The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
George Santayana quotes: Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

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