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Men have feverishly conceived...

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

George Santayana 613 quotes

He thinks he believes only wh...

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

George Santayana 613 quotes

The profoundest affinities ar...

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

George Santayana 613 quotes

In any close society it is mo...

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Rejection is a form of self-a...

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Art is a delayed echo. ...

Art is a delayed echo.

George Santayana 613 quotes

It is a great bond to dislike...

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

George Santayana 613 quotes

A conceived thing is doubly a...

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

George Santayana 613 quotes

There are three traps that st...

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

George Santayana 613 quotes

All his life he [the American...

All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Nothing can be meaner than th...

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

George Santayana 613 quotes

If all art aspires to the con...

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

George Santayana 613 quotes

People never believe in volca...

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

George Santayana 613 quotes

The combative instinct is a s...

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Reason and happiness are like...

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Nothing is inherently and inv...

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

George Santayana 613 quotes

History is always written wro...

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.

George Santayana 613 quotes

The whole machinery of our in...

The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Christianity persecuted, tort...

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Government is the political r...

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

George Santayana 613 quotes

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