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As widowers proverbially marry...

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

George Santayana 613 quotes

People who feel themselves to ...

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Christianity persecuted, tortu...

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 an

George Santayana 613 quotes

Does the thoughtful man suppos...

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

George Santayana 613 quotes

People never believe in volcan...

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

George Santayana 613 quotes

To most people, I fancy, the s...

To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered what they had heard about astronomy, and the great size and distance and possible habitation of those orbs. ... [We] persuade ourselves that the power of the starry heavens lies in the suggestion of astronomical facts.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Fear first created the gods....

Fear first created the gods.

George Santayana 613 quotes

It is in rare and scattered in...

It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

George Santayana 613 quotes

In a moving world readaptation...

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Work and love these are the ba...

Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Men have always been the victi...

Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.

George Santayana 613 quotes

The wonder of an artist's perf...

The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.

George Santayana 613 quotes

It is true that I am carrying ...

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Old places and old persons in ...

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

George Santayana 613 quotes

For Shakespeare, in the matter...

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

George Santayana 613 quotes

In endowing us with memory, na...

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Half our standards come from o...

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

George Santayana 613 quotes

why shouldnt things be largely...

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

George Santayana 613 quotes

We need sometimes to escape in...

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

George Santayana 613 quotes

...science is nothing but deve...

...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.

George Santayana 613 quotes

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