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• The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

  George Santayana

  Get Well, Mind, Body

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Roots

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.568, The Floating Press

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• The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

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  Suffering, Institutions, Rational

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.424, Indiana University Press

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• That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

  George Santayana

  Impossible, Aging, Assumption

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 10 (1905)

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• To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Beautiful, All Things

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.319, Indiana University Press

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• A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

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  Dream, Reflection, Speech

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.33, MIT Press

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• I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

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  Real, Imagination, Fantasy

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.99, Рипол Классик

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• Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Progress, Would Be

  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.130, MIT Press

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• Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

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  Lovely, Promise, Ruins

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

  George Santayana

  Art, Imagination, Demand

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

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  Art, Men, Discipline

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.327, 谷月社

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• Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

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  Fighting, Animal, Men

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

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• It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Eye, Imagination

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.198, 谷月社

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• The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

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  Heart, Eye, Men

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.120, Рипол Классик

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• Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

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  Heart, Men, Religion

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

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• Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

  George Santayana

  Hands, Here I Am, Grace

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• I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.

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  Art, Stupid, Moving

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• Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

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  Chaos, Bottom

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.33, Transaction Publishers

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• Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet.
  
  Habit is stronger than reason.

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  Stronger, Reason, Habit

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• The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

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  Health, Men, Disease

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

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  Evil, Optimism, Ruins

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.599, Indiana University Press

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• Music is essentially useless, as is life.

  George Santayana

  Music, Musician, Useless

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• why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

  George Santayana

  Together, Absurd, Transitory

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.319, MIT Press

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• The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

  George Santayana

  Science, Progress, Body

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.106, Рипол Классик

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• The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Poverty, Pleasure

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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