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• Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

  George Santayana

  Spiritual, Lying, Joy

  George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”

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• The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Men, Mind

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.115, 谷月社

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• The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Success, Succeed

  "The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two".

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• Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

  George Santayana

  Giving, Healthy, Special

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• It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Advantage, Phylosophy

  The Unknowable (1923)

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• Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

  George Santayana

  Science, Common Sense, Perception

  The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, Ch. 11

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• One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Bye, America

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

  George Santayana

  Reality, Imagination, Degrees

  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.70, MIT Press

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• If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

  George Santayana

  Despair, Ordinary, Fundamentals

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.

  George Santayana

  Fate, Artist, Men

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.357, 谷月社

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• There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Real, Selfishness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.274, The Floating Press

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• Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

  George Santayana

  Military, Victory, Religion

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

  George Santayana

  Fighting, Men, Opposites

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.55, 谷月社

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• To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

  George Santayana

  Criticism, Facts, Judgment

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Firsts, Provoking

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.4, Рипол Классик

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• A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

  George Santayana

  Mind, Suffering, Body

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

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• With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

  George Santayana

  Children, Eye, Artist

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.312, Indiana University Press

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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

  Heart, Thinking, Light

  George Santayana “The Works of George Santayana: The sense of beauty. Poems. Lucifer. Overheard in Seville”

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• 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

  Tunes, Concerts, Oneself

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• The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

  George Santayana

  Fate, Perfect, Lines

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.17, MIT Press

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• The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

  George Santayana

  Travel, Character, May

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

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• It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

  George Santayana

  Children, Memories, Husband

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

  George Santayana

  Justice, Bars, Spirit

  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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• Docility is the observable half of reason.

  George Santayana

  Half, Opinion, Reason

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.127, MIT Press

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• When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

  George Santayana

  Knowledge, Together, Steps

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

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