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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 Quotes)
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center (George Santayana Quotes)
The truth, my friends, is not eloquent, except unspoken; its vast shadow lends eloquence to our sparks of thought as they die into it (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere (George Santayana Quotes)
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair (George Santayana Quotes)
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought (George Santayana Quotes)
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything (George Santayana Quotes)
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity (George Santayana Quotes)
The empiricist... Thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing (George Santayana Quotes)
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid (George Santayana Quotes)
To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring (George Santayana Quotes)
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form (George Santayana Quotes)
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy (George Santayana Quotes)
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular (George Santayana Quotes)
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 word (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don't make anybody long lived or useful (George Santayana Quotes)
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world (George Santayana Quotes)
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence (George Santayana Quotes)
The muffled syllables that nature speaks fill us with deeper longing for her word; she hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, she makes a sweeter music than is heard (George Santayana Quotes)
I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise (George Santayana Quotes)
Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable (George Santayana Quotes)
The evil that is in the world. This evil we can never expect to perish utterly from the world; it must ever be here as the antithesis of the good (George Santayana Quotes)
To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood (George Santayana Quotes)
The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life (George Santayana Quotes)
All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us (George Santayana Quotes)
We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society? (George Santayana Quotes)