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George Santayana Quote: “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 Quote: “An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.”
George Santayana Quote: “Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
George Santayana Quote: “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 Quote: “There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.”
George Santayana Quote: “Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.”
George Santayana Quote: “To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other’s looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.”
George Santayana Quote: “We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”
George Santayana Quote: “History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.”
George Santayana Quote: “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
George Santayana Quote: “The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.”
George Santayana Quote: “Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.”
George Santayana Quote: “Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.”
George Santayana Quote: “The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
George Santayana Quote: “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 Quote: “Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.”
George Santayana Quote: “In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.”
George Santayana Quote: “Oaths are the fossils of piety.”
George Santayana Quote: “Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.”
George Santayana Quote: “Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.”
George Santayana Quote: “The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.”
George Santayana Quote: “One real world is enough.”
George Santayana Quote: “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 Quote: “Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.”
George Santayana Quote: “Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”
George Santayana Quote: “Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.”
George Santayana Quote: “Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.”
George Santayana Quote: “For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.”
George Santayana Quote: “The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.”
George Santayana Quote: “The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.”
George Santayana Quote: “I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.”
George Santayana Quote: “There is no dunce like a mature dunce.”
George Santayana Quote: “The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man’s good is found in another’s evil.”
George Santayana Quote: “To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”
George Santayana Quote: “Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.”
George Santayana Quote: “The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.”
George Santayana Quote: “To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.”
George Santayana Quote: “The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.”
George Santayana Quote: “Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.”
George Santayana Quote: “Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.”
George Santayana Quote: “It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man’s wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.”
George Santayana Quote: “Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.”
George Santayana Quote: “Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.”
George Santayana Quote: “Beware of long arguments and long beards.”
George Santayana Quote: “The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.”
George Santayana Quote: “Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.”
George Santayana Quote: “If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.”
George Santayana Quote: “The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.”
George Santayana Quote: “Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”
George Santayana Quote: “Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.”
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