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George Santayana Inspirational Quotes (276)

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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
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The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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