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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
By George Santayana
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
By George Santayana
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
By George Santayana
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
By George Santayana
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
By George Santayana
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
By George Santayana
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
By George Santayana
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
By George Santayana
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
By George Santayana
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
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, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
By George Santayana
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
By George Santayana
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
By George Santayana
Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
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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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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
By George Santayana