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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center (George Santayana Quotes)
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it (George Santayana Quotes)
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired (George Santayana Quotes)
Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains (George Santayana Quotes)
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events (George Santayana Quotes)
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy (George Santayana Quotes)
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true (George Santayana Quotes)
... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed (George Santayana Quotes)
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man’s charter of nobility (George Santayana Quotes)
It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation (George Santayana Quotes)
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he (George Santayana Quotes)
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends (George Santayana Quotes)
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics (George Santayana Quotes)
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods (George Santayana Quotes)
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness (George Santayana Quotes)
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape (George Santayana Quotes)
In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that (George Santayana Quotes)
The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder (George Santayana Quotes)
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one’s powers (George Santayana Quotes)
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss (George Santayana Quotes)
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world (George Santayana Quotes)
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral (George Santayana Quotes)
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns (George Santayana Quotes)
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be (George Santayana Quotes)
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten... What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion (George Santayana Quotes)
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing (George Santayana Quotes)
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe (George Santayana Quotes)
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise (George Santayana Quotes)
Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty? (George Santayana Quotes)
When a man’s life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains (George Santayana Quotes)