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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all (George Santayana Quotes)
Do not have evil doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men (George Santayana Quotes)
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny (George Santayana Quotes)
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them (George Santayana Quotes)
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different (George Santayana Quotes)
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots (George Santayana Quotes)
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment (George Santayana Quotes)
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there (George Santayana Quotes)
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads (George Santayana Quotes)
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. That make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands (George Santayana Quotes)
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator (George Santayana Quotes)
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions (George Santayana Quotes)
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world (George Santayana Quotes)
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality (George Santayana Quotes)
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity (George Santayana Quotes)
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal (George Santayana Quotes)
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise (George Santayana Quotes)
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age (George Santayana Quotes)
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring (George Santayana Quotes)
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman (George Santayana Quotes)
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 Quotes)
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different (George Santayana Quotes)
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better (George Santayana Quotes)
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 (George Santayana Quotes)
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy (George Santayana Quotes)
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty (George Santayana Quotes)
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to (George Santayana Quotes)
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases (George Santayana Quotes)
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace (George Santayana Quotes)
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome (George Santayana Quotes)