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• Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

  George Santayana

  Men, Long, Speech

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

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• A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Growth, Mind

  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.103, MIT Press

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• Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

  George Santayana

  Peace, Philosophy, Harmony

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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• Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Beautiful, Taste

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.40, Рипол Классик

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• The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

  George Santayana

  Birthday, Passion, Pride

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.22, Рипол Классик

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• There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Church, Bed

  George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

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• Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

  George Santayana

  Echoes, Vision, Arms

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.131, Library of Alexandria

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• The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

  George Santayana

  Clouds, Battle, Lightning

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.150, Indiana University Press

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• That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

  George Santayana

  God, Atheism, Firsts

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.126, 谷月社

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• Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Ideas, Detectives

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.201, Рипол Классик

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• Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

  George Santayana

  Enemy, Weapons, Argument

  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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• Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

  George Santayana

  Men, Importance

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• 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

  Adventure, Age, Spirit

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

  George Santayana

  Book, Hands, Interesting

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

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• It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

  George Santayana

  Saint, Saints And Sinners, Easier

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.763, The Floating Press

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• The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

  George Santayana

  Ignorance, Animal, Expression

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

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• To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

  George Santayana

  Love, War, Calling

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.56, 谷月社

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• My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.

  George Santayana

  Character, Past, Historical Novels

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.62, Indiana University Press

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• If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

  George Santayana

  Art, Mathematics, Mathematical

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• In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Expression, Choices

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

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• The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

  George Santayana

  Horse, Focus, Mind

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• The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

  George Santayana

  Shells, Thousand

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

  George Santayana

  Intolerance, Share, Form

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• Art is a delayed echo.

  George Santayana

  Art, Echoes, Art Is

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• Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

  George Santayana

  Pleasure, Barbarism

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.55, 谷月社

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