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• Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

  George Santayana

  Light, Jewels, May

  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.65, MIT Press

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• A simple life is its own reward.

  George Santayana

  Simple, Rewards, Life Is

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.203, 谷月社

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• Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Writing, Adventure, Young Friends

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• Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

  George Santayana

  Faith, Sky, World

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

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• In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

  George Santayana

  Love, Memories, Passion

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• The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

  George Santayana

  Reflection, Age, Doe

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

  George Santayana

  Flower, Reason

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.199, 谷月社

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• Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

  George Santayana

  Art, Philosophy, Thoughtful

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• Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

  George Santayana

  Insanity, Madness, Wonderful

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.

  George Santayana

  Photography, Clothes, Benefits

  George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

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• Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

  George Santayana

  Love, Half, Firsts

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.321, Indiana University Press

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• The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

  George Santayana

  Spirit, Speak, Longing

  George Santayana (1922). “Poems”

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• Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

  George Santayana

  Disillusionment

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• There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.

  George Santayana

  Impossible, Existence, Seems

  "The Genteel Tradition at Bay" (1931)

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• Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

  George Santayana

  Art, Republican, Conversation

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Simple, Facts

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

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• Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

  George Santayana

  Animal, Love Is, Divine

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.108, 谷月社

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• The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

  George Santayana

  Art, Interesting, Effort

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.320, 谷月社

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• The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

  George Santayana

  Men, Simplicity, Simple Life

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.204, 谷月社

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• In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

  George Santayana

  Change, Moving, World

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

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• Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

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

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• In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

  George Santayana

  Authority, Tendencies, Oneself

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.116, Transaction Publishers

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• Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Lying, Men

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• Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Hobbies

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.580, Indiana University Press

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• Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

  George Santayana

  Art, Artist, Should

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.332, 谷月社

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