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• In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Beautiful, Suggestions

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

  George Santayana

  Freedom, Men, Judging

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2003). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5”, p.162, MIT Press

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• Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

  George Santayana

  Travel, Dignity, Fixed

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• Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

  George Santayana

  Boston, Cities, Intellectual

  "Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts".

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• It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

  George Santayana

  Men, Easy, Unhappiness

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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• Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

  George Santayana

  Art, History, Melancholy

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8

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• All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

  George Santayana

  Spiritual, Animal, Interest

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.31, 谷月社

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• Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Noble, Youth

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.99, Рипол Классик

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• A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

  George Santayana

  Imagination, Regard

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

  George Santayana

  Death, Evil, Dying

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.174, MIT Press

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• Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

  George Santayana

  Men, Religion, Atheism

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.450, Indiana University Press

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• Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Conclusion, Draws

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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

  Positive, War, Remembrance

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.262, Рипол Классик

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• Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

  George Santayana

  Tyrants, Care, Instruments

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.65, Transaction Publishers

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• Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

  George Santayana

  Intellectual, Elements, Harmony

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.267, 谷月社

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• We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

  George Santayana

  Dating, Together, Enough

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  "The Works of George Santayana".

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• Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

  George Santayana

  Fun, Charity, Good Things

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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• To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

  George Santayana

  Mean, Successful, Two Sides

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Heaven is to be at peace with things.

  George Santayana

  Heaven, Inner Peace

  George Santayana (1936). “The philosophy of Santayana”, Random House

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• For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

  George Santayana

  Adversity, Men, Fire

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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

  Children, Men, Possession

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.48, 谷月社

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• ...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Dark, Common Sense

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.506, 谷月社

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• One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  George Santayana

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

  George Santayana

  Too Much, Philosopher, Fierce

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.18, Sheba Blake Publishing

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