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George Santayana Quote: “Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.”
George Santayana Quote: “Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.”
George Santayana Quote: “Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.”
George Santayana Quote: “It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”
George Santayana Quote: “Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.”
George Santayana Quote: “Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.”
George Santayana Quote: “The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.”
George Santayana Quote: “Scepticism 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 Quote: “What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?”
George Santayana Quote: “Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”
George Santayana Quote: “A friend’s only gift is himself.”
George Santayana Quote: “The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
George Santayana Quote: “Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.”
George Santayana Quote: “The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.”
George Santayana Quote: “Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.”
George Santayana Quote: “Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine...”
George Santayana Quote: “The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence.”
George Santayana Quote: “It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.”
George Santayana Quote: “Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.”
George Santayana Quote: “The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.”
George Santayana Quote: “Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.”
George Santayana Quote: “All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.”
George Santayana Quote: “Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.”
George Santayana Quote: “The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the darker and more malign its total temper. To deny this would seem impossible, yet it is done daily; for there is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition; and candor and a sense of justice are, in such a case, the first things lost.”
George Santayana Quote: “Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one’s fine feelings, on one’s indomitable optimism and trust in life.”
George Santayana Quote: “Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.”
George Santayana Quote: “Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.”
George Santayana Quote: “Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.”
George Santayana Quote: “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 Quote: “The Bible is literature, not dogma.”
George Santayana Quote: “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 Quote: “The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.”
George Santayana Quote: “Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.”
George Santayana Quote: “It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.”
George Santayana Quote: “Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.”
George Santayana Quote: “Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.”
George Santayana Quote: “The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.”
George Santayana Quote: “All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.”
George Santayana Quote: “The man who is not permitted to own is owned.”
George Santayana Quote: “Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.”
George Santayana Quote: “Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.”
George Santayana Quote: “A man’s memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.”
George Santayana Quote: “It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”
George Santayana Quote: “It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.”
George Santayana Quote: “All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man’s natural sentiment in the face of death.”
George Santayana Quote: “The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.”
George Santayana Quote: “If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.”
George Santayana Quote: “Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.”
George Santayana Quote: “Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.”
George Santayana Quote: “It is a great bond to dislike the same things.”
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