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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions (George Santayana Quotes)
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests (George Santayana Quotes)
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject (George Santayana Quotes)
The difficult is that which can be done immediately; the impossible that which takes a little longer (George Santayana Quotes)
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him (George Santayana Quotes)
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape (George Santayana Quotes)
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients (George Santayana Quotes)
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character (George Santayana Quotes)
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany (George Santayana Quotes)
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be (George Santayana Quotes)
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool (George Santayana Quotes)
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far (George Santayana Quotes)
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood (George Santayana Quotes)
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful (George Santayana Quotes)
All his life he jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg (George Santayana Quotes)
There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable (George Santayana Quotes)
They are condemned, dante tells us, to no other penalty than to live in desire without hope, a fate appropriate to noble souls with a clear vision of life (George Santayana Quotes)
I leave you but the sound of many a word in mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me (George Santayana Quotes)
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said (George Santayana Quotes)
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good (George Santayana Quotes)
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions (George Santayana Quotes)
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation (George Santayana Quotes)
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate (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)
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion (George Santayana Quotes)
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood (George Santayana Quotes)
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are (George Santayana Quotes)
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity (George Santayana Quotes)
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel (George Santayana Quotes)
If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things (George Santayana Quotes)