George Santayana quotes - page 2

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. (George Santayana)
Music is essentially useless, as life is. View quote
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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. View quote
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Sanity is madness put to good use. View quote
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An artist may visit a museum, but only a pedant can live there. View quote
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. View quote
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said. View quote
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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. View quote
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. View quote
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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. View quote
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. (George Santayana)
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. View quote
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. View quote
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. View quote
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The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. View quote
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity. View quote
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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. View quote
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. View quote
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. View quote
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. View quote
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. (George Santayana)
Philosophers are as jealous as women each wants a monopoly of praise. View quote
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. View quote
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Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. View quote
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Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continual comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them. View quote
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