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George Santayana Quote: “That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.”
George Santayana Quote: “Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom – picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode – may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.”
George Santayana Quote: “The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.”
George Santayana Quote: “A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.”
George Santayana Quote: “Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise.”
George Santayana Quote: “There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.”
George Santayana Quote: “Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.”
George Santayana Quote: “The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.”
George Santayana Quote: “Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.”
George Santayana Quote: “Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”
George Santayana Quote: “There is no right government except good government.”
George Santayana Quote: “Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.”
George Santayana Quote: “What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art .”
George Santayana Quote: “Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.”
George Santayana Quote: “The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.”
George Santayana Quote: “The humanitarian, like the missionary, is often an irreducible enemy of the people he seeks to befriend, because he has not imagination enough to sympathize with their proper needs nor humility enough to respect them as if they were his own. Arrogance, fanaticism, meddlesomeness, and imperialism may then masquerade as philanthropy.”
George Santayana Quote: “The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.”
George Santayana Quote: “The worship of power is an old religion.”
George Santayana Quote: “Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.”
George Santayana Quote: “A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.”
George Santayana Quote: “For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”
George Santayana Quote: “I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.”
George Santayana Quote: “When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.”
George Santayana Quote: “The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.”
George Santayana Quote: “Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.”
George Santayana Quote: “The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.”
George Santayana Quote: “Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.”
George Santayana Quote: “Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.”
George Santayana Quote: “If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.”
George Santayana Quote: “Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.”
George Santayana Quote: “Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.”
George Santayana Quote: “I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.”
George Santayana Quote: “It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.”
George Santayana Quote: “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 Quote: “To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.”
George Santayana Quote: “Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”
George Santayana Quote: “By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.”
George Santayana Quote: “Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.”
George Santayana Quote: “There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.”
George Santayana Quote: “To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.”
George Santayana Quote: “Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.”
George Santayana Quote: “Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural faculty and moral harmony; afterwards, gladly relinquishing zone after zone of vegetation, and letting the snow-peak of integrity rise to what height it may.”
George Santayana Quote: “Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.”
George Santayana Quote: “Music is essentially useless, as is life.”
George Santayana Quote: “It is not society’s fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.”
George Santayana Quote: “The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.”
George Santayana Quote: “At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.”
George Santayana Quote: “Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age.”
George Santayana Quote: “What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?”
George Santayana Quote: “O WORLD, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise,. And on the inward vision close the eyes,. But it is wisdom to believe the heart.”
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