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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 Quotes)
Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts (George Santayana Quotes)
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected men's natural sentiment in the face of death (George Santayana Quotes)
The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things; our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands (George Santayana Quotes)
The Fates, like an absent minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred (George Santayana Quotes)
Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends (George Santayana Quotes)
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dulness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence (George Santayana Quotes)
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit (George Santayana Quotes)
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad (George Santayana Quotes)
Nature, in denying us perennial youth, has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Mortality has its compensations: one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come (George Santayana Quotes)
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them (George Santayana Quotes)
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public (George Santayana Quotes)
Men almost universally have acknowledged a Providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and to re-establish themselves alone (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams (George Santayana Quotes)
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes (George Santayana Quotes)
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress (George Santayana Quotes)