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• To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

  George Santayana

  Drinking, Spirit, Drink

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• Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet.
  
  Habit is stronger than reason.

  George Santayana

  Stronger, Reason, Habit

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• Columbus gave the world another world.

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  World, Columbus, Another World

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• Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Done, Sake

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• America is a young country with an old mentality.

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  Country, America, Young

  George Santayana (1998). “The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays”, p.39, U of Nebraska Press

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• The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

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  Cities, Mind, Renaissance

  George Santayana “The works of George Santayana”

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• One real world is enough.

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  Real, World, Enough

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.31, Рипол Классик

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• I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

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  Real, Imagination, Fantasy

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

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• To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, All Things

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.319, Indiana University Press

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• Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

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  Philosophy, May, Force

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.160, 谷月社

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• Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

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  Philosophy, Jealous, Want

  "The Works of George Santayana".

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• A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

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  Spirituality, Social, Source

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.265, Рипол Классик

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• Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

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  Real, Intuition, Criticism

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1058, The Floating Press

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• Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

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  Ideas, Progress, Would Be

  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.130, MIT Press

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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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  Memories, Poverty, Pleasure

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

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  Science, Progress, Body

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.106, Рипол Классик

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• For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

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  Choices, Atheism, Matter

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana: Interpretations of the poetry and religion. Hamlet. Shelley. Dickens. Tragic philosophy”

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• The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

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  Art, Men, Discipline

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.327, 谷月社

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• That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

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  Impossible, Aging, Assumption

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 10 (1905)

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• A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

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  Dream, Reflection, Speech

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.33, MIT Press

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• I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.

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  Art, Stupid, Moving

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• Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

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  Chaos, Bottom

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.33, Transaction Publishers

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• Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

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  Hands, Here I Am, Grace

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• An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

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  Artist, Museums, May

  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.80, MIT Press

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• The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

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  Suffering, Institutions, Rational

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.424, Indiana University Press

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