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George Santayana Inspirational Quotes (276)

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The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
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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.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
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