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George Santayana

Thought and Reason
The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
3.4 · 23 votes · 198 reads
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Society
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
3.4 · 11 votes · 143 reads
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Art and Culture
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
3.7 · 7 votes · 113 reads
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Society
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
3.5 · 57 votes · 110 reads
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Thought and Reason
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
3.2 · 8 votes · 162 reads
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Feelings
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
4.2 · 24 votes · 106 reads
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Feelings
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
3.6 · 12 votes · 22 reads
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Society
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
3.1 · 10 votes · 131 reads
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Thought and Reason
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
4.4 · 10 votes · 27 reads
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Various
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
3.9 · 61 votes · 48 reads
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Feelings
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
4.4 · 10 votes · 43 reads
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Thought and Reason
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
4.3 · 49 votes · 20 reads
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Nature
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
3.9 · 45 votes · 62 reads
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Virtues
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
4.2 · 15 votes · 166 reads
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Nature
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
4.0 · 18 votes · 187 reads
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Time
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
4.1 · 26 votes · 135 reads
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Thought and Reason
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
3.4 · 29 votes · 88 reads
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Time
To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
4.9 · 34 votes · 117 reads
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Government and Politics
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
3.1 · 10 votes · 64 reads
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Nature
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
3.2 · 42 votes · 101 reads
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Virtues
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
3.6 · 26 votes · 141 reads
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