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• The Bible is literature, not dogma.

  George Santayana

  Bible, Religious, Hygiene

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

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• Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

  George Santayana

  Prayer, People, Effort

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.138, 谷月社

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• A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

  George Santayana

  Long, Soul, World

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.83, Рипол Классик

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• For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

  George Santayana

  Fashion, Ideas, Investing

  1913 Winds of Doctrine,'Modernism and Christianity'.

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• Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

  George Santayana

  Integrity, Character, Army

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• The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, World

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• Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Wise, Wisdom

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.461, 谷月社

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• To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

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  Imagination, Vivid, Taste

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

  George Santayana

  Christian, Country, Stranger

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.58, Рипол Классик

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• Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Self Esteem, Mean

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.163, Courier Corporation

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• We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

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  Should Have, Illusion, Irrational

  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.136, MIT Press

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• It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

  George Santayana

  Doctors, Perfect, Dying

  George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.152, MIT Press

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• Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

  George Santayana

  Free Gifts, Miracle, Moments

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.340, Indiana University Press

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• Beauty is objectified pleasure.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Pleasure

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• The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

  George Santayana

  Education, Ideas, Difficulty

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.9, Рипол Классик

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• The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

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  Mistake, Self, Cynical

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• Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

  George Santayana

  Funny, Wisdom, Long

  George Santayana, James Seaton (2014). “Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States: And Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.143, Yale University Press

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• Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Hero, Shouting

  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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• Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

  George Santayana

  Men, Funeral, Dying

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

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• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  George Santayana

  Life, Beautiful, Aggravation

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

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  Love, Beauty, Wisdom

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

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• My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

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  Hate, Passion, Soul

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

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• Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Real, Share

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.458, Indiana University Press

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• The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

  George Santayana

  Confidence, Inspire, Quality

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

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  Love Life, Religion, Consciousness

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.37, The Floating Press

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