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• It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

  George Santayana

  Wells, Pleasant, Can Do

  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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• The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

  George Santayana

  Men, Simplicity, Simple Life

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.204, 谷月社

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• Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

  George Santayana

  Inattention, Contempt, Familiarity Breeds Contempt

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

  George Santayana

  Ignorance, Science, Facts

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

  George Santayana

  Stupidity, Mature, Dunces

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

  George Santayana

  Vanity, Support, Forgiving

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

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• Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

  George Santayana

  Drama, Ideas, Imagination

  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.89, MIT Press

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• The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

  George Santayana

  Forgiveness, Unforgivable Sin, Refusal

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• Oaths are the fossils of piety.

  George Santayana

  Promise, Fossils, Swearing

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

  George Santayana

  World, Moments, Contradiction

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

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• Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

  George Santayana

  Affair, Seriousness, Humans

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

  George Santayana

  Wise, Opposites, Balance

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

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• To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Events, Literature

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.286, 谷月社

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• In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

  George Santayana

  Wise, Men, Talking

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• Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

  George Santayana

  Design, Individuality, Hobbies

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• Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Circumstances, Mortals

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

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• A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

  George Santayana

  Character, Greatness, Men

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

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• Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

  George Santayana

  Selfish, Men, Overcoming

  "Little Essays Drawn from the Writings of George Santayana".

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• I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Believe, Passion

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.231, MIT Press

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• The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

  George Santayana

  Reflection, Age, Doe

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

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• The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science

  George Santayana

  Running, Science, Errors

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

  George Santayana

  Intuition, Reason, Instinct

  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.17, MIT Press

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• Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Knowing, Religion

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.159, 谷月社

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• In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Recognition, Contemplation

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

  George Santayana

  Long, May, Honey

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

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