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George Santayana Quotes

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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.
A mans feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value, is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
There is nothing sacred about convention: there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.



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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.


Age Quote
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.
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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

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