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• The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

  George Santayana

  Religious, Atheist, Inspiration

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• Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

  George Santayana

  Vision, Intelligence, Awe

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.19, Library of Alexandria

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• Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  George Santayana

  Military, War, Philosophical

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• The earth has music for those who listen.

  George Santayana

  Music, Encouragement, Art

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• The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

  George Santayana

  Reality, Class, Two

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

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• Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

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  Wise, Taken, Passion

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• Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Understanding, Dignity

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.532, Indiana University Press

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• Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Success, Education

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.221, Library of Alexandria

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• Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

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  Friendship, Buddhist, Men

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• Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

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  Prayer, Effort, Range

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.132, 谷月社

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• An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Art, Design

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3

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• Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

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  Hate, Animal, Men

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

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• It is wisdom to believe the heart.

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  Believe, Heart

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

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• Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Mad

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

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• The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

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  Vanity, Reputation, Fame

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.84, 谷月社

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• Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

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  Fashion, Political, Innovation

  1905-6 The Life of Reason,'Reason in Religion'.

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• Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

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  Nature, Soul, Conformity

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.270, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
  That lights the pathway but one step ahead
  Across a void of mystery and dread.

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  Faith, Knowledge, Light

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

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• When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

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  Women, Different, Reason

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.87, 谷月社

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• love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

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  Love, Death, Philosopher

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.146, Courier Corporation

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• Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

  George Santayana

  Life, Predicaments, Spectacles

  Articles and Essays

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• It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

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  Stupid, Ideas, Brain

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.392, 谷月社

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• Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

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  Clouds, Air, Wind

  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.115, MIT Press

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• Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

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  Happiness, Work, Character

  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.135, MIT Press

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• Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

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  Courage, Humility, Men

  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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