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• Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

  George Santayana

  Art, Republican, Conversation

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

  George Santayana

  Hate, Passion, Soul

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

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• The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

  George Santayana

  Art, Philosophy, Dangerous

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Environment, Harmony

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

  George Santayana

  Knowledge, Mind, Irrevocable

  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.95, MIT Press

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• Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

  George Santayana

  Confidence, Knowledge, Self

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• It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

  George Santayana

  Men, Missing, Faults

  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.64, MIT Press

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• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

  George Santayana

  Love, Beauty, Wisdom

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

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• Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

  George Santayana

  Flower, Reason

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.199, 谷月社

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• A simple life is its own reward.

  George Santayana

  Simple, Rewards, Life Is

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.203, 谷月社

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• Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

  George Santayana

  People, Aroma, Life Is

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.436, Transaction Publishers

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

  George Santayana

  Infancy Is, Progress, Savages

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

  George Santayana

  Grind, My Thoughts

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

  George Santayana

  Long, Lasts, Firsts

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word "is". Literal and symbolic knowledge. The unknowable”

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• In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

  George Santayana

  Love, Memories, Passion

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• Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

  George Santayana

  Art, Philosophy, Thoughtful

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• Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

  George Santayana

  Insanity, Madness, Wonderful

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

  George Santayana

  Spirit, Speak, Longing

  George Santayana (1922). “Poems”

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• Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

  George Santayana

  Disillusionment

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• The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

  George Santayana

  Art, Interesting, Effort

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.320, 谷月社

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• Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

  George Santayana

  Art, Artist, Should

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.332, 谷月社

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• There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.

  George Santayana

  Impossible, Existence, Seems

  "The Genteel Tradition at Bay" (1931)

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• The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Character, Men

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.61, Indiana University Press

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• In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

  George Santayana

  Authority, Tendencies, Oneself

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.116, Transaction Publishers

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• Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Hobbies

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.580, Indiana University Press

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