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George Santayana Inspirational Quotes (276)

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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
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Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
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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.
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Docility is the observable half of reason.
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The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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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.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
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