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• It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

  George Santayana

  Doctors, Perfect, Dying

  George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.152, MIT Press

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• There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

  George Santayana

  Mind, Principles, Adequate

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• Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

  George Santayana

  Free Gifts, Miracle, Moments

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.340, Indiana University Press

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• To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

  George Santayana

  Imagination, Vivid, Taste

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sanity is madness put to good use.

  George Santayana

  History, Use, Madness

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.269, Indiana University Press

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• The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

  George Santayana

  Education, Ideas, Difficulty

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.9, Рипол Классик

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• For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

  George Santayana

  Fashion, Ideas, Investing

  1913 Winds of Doctrine,'Modernism and Christianity'.

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• Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Real, Share

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.458, Indiana University Press

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• Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

  George Santayana

  Function, Dear, Adopted

  The Life of Reason vol. 3, ch. 1 (1905)

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• Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Thinking, Fancy

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

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• Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

  George Santayana

  Prayer, People, Effort

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.138, 谷月社

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• A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

  George Santayana

  Long, Soul, World

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.83, Рипол Классик

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• America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

  George Santayana

  Opportunity, America, Influence

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.423, MIT Press

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• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  George Santayana

  Life, Beautiful, Aggravation

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

  George Santayana

  Marriage, Patience, Appreciate

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 2, ch. 2

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• The Bible is literature, not dogma.

  George Santayana

  Bible, Religious, Hygiene

  Benedictus de Spinoza, George Santayana (1910). “Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione".”

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• The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

  George Santayana

  Soul, Littles, Fruit

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.136, Indiana University Press

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• Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.

  George Santayana

  War, Ambition, Buddhism

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• The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, World

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• Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Writing, Adventure, Young Friends

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• A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

  George Santayana

  Country, 4th Of July, Knowledge

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress". Book by George Santayana, Chapter VII: Patriotism, 1905.

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• Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

  George Santayana

  Funny, Wisdom, Long

  George Santayana, James Seaton (2014). “Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States: And Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.143, Yale University Press

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• The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

  George Santayana

  Confidence, Inspire, Quality

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.

  George Santayana

  Religious, Soul, Atheism

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.51, Рипол Классик

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• Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

  George Santayana

  Love Life, Religion, Consciousness

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.37, The Floating Press

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