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The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably (George Santayana Quotes)
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there... History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten (George Santayana Quotes)
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor (George Santayana Quotes)
A man is morally free when... he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity (George Santayana Quotes)
The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses and suggests (George Santayana Quotes)
To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well (George Santayana Quotes)
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted (George Santayana Quotes)
Religion in it's humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace (George Santayana Quotes)
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love (George Santayana Quotes)
The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all (George Santayana Quotes)
The wonder of an artist’s performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men’s fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves (George Santayana Quotes)
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else (George Santayana Quotes)
Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely (George Santayana Quotes)
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another (George Santayana Quotes)
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason (George Santayana Quotes)
It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health (George Santayana Quotes)
Most men’s conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them (George Santayana Quotes)
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light (George Santayana Quotes)
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about (George Santayana Quotes)
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language (George Santayana Quotes)