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• Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

  George Santayana

  Atheism, Life Is, Blindness

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

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

  George Santayana

  Death, Dark, Birth

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• He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

  George Santayana

  Believe, Thinking, Vision

  George Santayana (2013). “Scepticism and Animal Faith”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

  George Santayana

  Men, Drink, Reconcile

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.27, Рипол Классик

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• We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

  George Santayana

  Running, Holiday, Order

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• Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.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

  George Santayana

  Imagination, Vivid, Taste

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

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

  George Santayana

  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.

  George Santayana

  Mistake, Self, Cynical

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• It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

  George Santayana

  Affinity, Great Bond, Dislike

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

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

  George Santayana

  Hate, Passion, Soul

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

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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.

  George Santayana

  Love, Beauty, Wisdom

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.

  George Santayana

  Religious, Soul, Atheism

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.51, Рипол Классик

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