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George Santayana Inspirational Quotes (276)

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The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
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It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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Columbus gave the world another world.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
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