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• An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

  George Santayana

  Real, Successful, Men

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.

  George Santayana

  Retirement, Philosophy, Cities

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.143, Рипол Классик

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• The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.

  George Santayana

  World, Amusement, Spirit

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• Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

  George Santayana

  Spiritual, Lying, Joy

  George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”

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• The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Men, Mind

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.115, 谷月社

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• The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Success, Succeed

  "The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two".

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• Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

  George Santayana

  Science, Common Sense, Perception

  The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, Ch. 11

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• Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

  George Santayana

  Giving, Healthy, Special

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• One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Bye, America

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

  George Santayana

  Reality, Imagination, Degrees

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.70, MIT Press

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• If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

  George Santayana

  Despair, Ordinary, Fundamentals

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.

  George Santayana

  Fate, Artist, Men

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.357, 谷月社

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• There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Real, Selfishness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.274, The Floating Press

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• Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

  George Santayana

  Military, Victory, Religion

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

  George Santayana

  Fighting, Men, Opposites

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.55, 谷月社

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• I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.338, MIT Press

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• Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Thinking, Light

  George Santayana “The Works of George Santayana: The sense of beauty. Poems. Lucifer. Overheard in Seville”

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• A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

  George Santayana

  Change, Art, Memories

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

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• The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

  George Santayana

  Art, Study, Occasions

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

  George Santayana

  Character, Personality, Sagacity

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.28, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

  George Santayana

  Criticism, Facts, Judgment

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Sacred, Way

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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• When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

  George Santayana

  Knowledge, Together, Steps

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

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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

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Imagination

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

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• Docility is the observable half of reason.

  George Santayana

  Half, Opinion, Reason

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.127, MIT Press

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