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• Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Imagination

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

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• I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.338, MIT Press

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• To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

  George Santayana

  Mind, Illusion, Harmony

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Joy, Littles

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

  George Santayana

  Family, Race, Class

  George Santayana (1954). “The Life of Reason: Or, The Phases of Human Progress”, p.184, Prabhat Prakashan

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• At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.

  George Santayana

  May, Pilots, Philosopher

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

  George Santayana

  Country, Children, Citizens

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.263, Рипол Классик

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• The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

  George Santayana

  Feelings, Moral, Strongest

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.256, Рипол Классик

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• There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Sacred, Way

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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• All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

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  Beauty, Honored

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

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  Freedom, Artist, Interesting

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.

  George Santayana

  Memories, History

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

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• The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

  George Santayana

  Art, Study, Occasions

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Stronger, Progress

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• A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

  George Santayana

  Change, Art, Memories

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

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• The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

  George Santayana

  Apes, Irrational, Terrible

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.44, MIT Press

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• To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

  George Santayana

  Elude, Classic, Psychological

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.533, Indiana University Press

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• Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

  George Santayana

  Real, Soul, Spirituality

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

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• Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

  George Santayana

  Faith, Religious, Science

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• The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

  George Santayana

  Art, Pride, Skills

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• A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

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  Way, World, Earth

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.310, Indiana University Press

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• Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

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  Wisdom, Men, Intelligence

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.50, Рипол Классик

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• Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.

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  Peace, Men, Passionate

  George Santayana (2002). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3”, MIT Press

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• Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

  George Santayana

  Emotional, Weakness, Emotional Life

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• A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

  George Santayana

  Small Changes, Hype, Currency

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.110, 谷月社

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