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• Man's most serious activity is play.

  George Santayana

  Men, Playing Games, Serious

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• Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Common Sense, Nonsense

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

  George Santayana

  Life, Men, Made

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• It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

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  Stupid, Ideas, Brain

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.392, 谷月社

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• Depression is rage spread thin.

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  Depression, Depressing, Pain

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• Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

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  Inspiration, Age, Youth

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

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• The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Freedom, Liberty

  Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

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  Change, Children, Persistence

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

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  Order, Names, Confusion

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

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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

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  Confused, Lying, Competition

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

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• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

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  Love, Positive, Happiness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1053, The Floating Press

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• For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

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  Sleep, Men, Hair

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• Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

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  Vision, Intelligence, Awe

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.19, Library of Alexandria

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• Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

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  Wise, Taken, Passion

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• To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

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  Taken, Passion, World

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.280, Рипол Классик

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• It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.

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  War, Flower, Generations

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.52, MIT Press

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• Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

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  Wisdom, Understanding, Dignity

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.532, Indiana University Press

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• Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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  Happiness, Success, Education

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.221, Library of Alexandria

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• The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

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  Men, Laughing, Savages

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• Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Mad

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

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• There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.

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  Dragons, People, Stupidity

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.77, 谷月社

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• The earth has music for those who listen.

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  Music, Encouragement, Art

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

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  Skepticism, Intellect, Chastity

  "Scepticism and Animal Faith". Book by George Santayana, 1923.

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• The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

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  Religious, Atheist, Inspiration

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• Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

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  Prayer, Effort, Range

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.132, 谷月社

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