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• We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

  George Santayana

  Dating, Together, Enough

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

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  Tyrants, Care, Instruments

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.65, Transaction Publishers

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• One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  George Santayana

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

  George Santayana

  Fun, Charity, Good Things

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Children, Men, Possession

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.48, 谷月社

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• For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

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  Adversity, Men, Fire

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• Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

  George Santayana

  Achievement, Creative, Action

  "10 Quotes: Inspire and Motivate" by Sura College of Competition, p. 28, August 1, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Successful, Two Sides

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

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  Too Much, Philosopher, Fierce

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.18, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

  George Santayana

  Time, Men, Doctrine

  George Santayana (1936). “The philosophy of Santayana”, Random House

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• Heaven is to be at peace with things.

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  Heaven, Inner Peace

  George Santayana (1936). “The philosophy of Santayana”, Random House

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• ...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Dark, Common Sense

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.506, 谷月社

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• The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

  George Santayana

  Voice, Soul, Body

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.310, MIT Press

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• The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

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  Facts, Immortality, Born

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.805, The Floating Press

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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.

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  Time, Knowing, Eternity

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• 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.

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  Men, Eulogy, Quality

  Benedictus de Spinoza, George Santayana (1910). “Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione".”

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• Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

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  Hate, Self, Rejection

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

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  Real, Believe, Sadness

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• Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

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  Life, Anxiety, Honor

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• By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.

  George Santayana

  Essence, Degrees, May

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• As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

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  Men, Lost Friendship, Widows

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• 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.

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  Death, Finals, Ends

  George Santayana (2003). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

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  Time, Nature, Science

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

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  Important, Looks, World

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• 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.

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  Revenge, Passion, Thinking

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.150, MIT Press

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