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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
By George Santayana
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
By George Santayana
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
By George Santayana
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.
By George Santayana
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
By George Santayana
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. Science
By George Santayana
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
By George Santayana
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. Patriotism
By George Santayana
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
By George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. Nature
By George Santayana
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. History
By George Santayana
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians.
By George Santayana
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. Friendship
By George Santayana
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
By George Santayana
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.
By George Santayana
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
By George Santayana
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
By George Santayana