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George Santayana Inspirational Quotes (276)

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What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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A friend's only gift is himself.
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Order, for a liberal, means only peace and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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Man is a fighting animal his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
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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.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.
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Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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