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• A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Nature, Grateful

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.

  George Santayana

  Echoes, Heaven, Sound

  George Santayana (1979). “The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition”, Associated Univ Pr

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• It is the acme of life to understand life.

  George Santayana

  Life

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.143, Рипол Классик

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• A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

  George Santayana

  Play, Soul, World

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• 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

  Intelligent, Reform, Use

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?

  George Santayana

  Love, Sex, Powerful

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Eye, Men

  George Santayana (1998). “The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays”, p.139, U of Nebraska Press

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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

  Nature, Men, Questions And Answers

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.86, MIT Press

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• The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

  George Santayana

  Progress, May, Evolution

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.151, Library of Alexandria

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• The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

  George Santayana

  Get Well, Mind, Body

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

  George Santayana

  Together, Absurd, Transitory

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.319, MIT Press

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• Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

  George Santayana

  Character, Past, Order

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.380, 谷月社

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• It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Eye, Imagination

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.198, 谷月社

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• The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

  George Santayana

  Health, Men, Disease

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

  George Santayana

  Evil, Optimism, Ruins

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.599, Indiana University Press

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• The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Eye, Men

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.120, Рипол Классик

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• Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Men, Religion

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

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• Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

  George Santayana

  Fate, Justice, World

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.67, 谷月社

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• Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

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  Art, Imagination, Demand

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

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  Fighting, Animal, Men

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

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• Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

  George Santayana

  Long, Poetry, Ancient

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.58, MIT Press

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• Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

  George Santayana

  Soul, Body, Spirituality

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.150, Рипол Классик

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• The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Two, Tragedy

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.78, Indiana University Press

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• The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

  George Santayana

  Use, Conversation, Impulse

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

  George Santayana

  Life, Sad, Soul

  "Dialogues in Limbo" by George Santayana, (Ch. 3, p. 62), 1926.

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