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George Santayana Inspirational Quotes (276)

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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
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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.
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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One real world is enough.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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Fear first created the gods.
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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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