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Art is a delayed echo.

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

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

Every nation thinks its own m...

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Matters of religion should ne...

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Man is a gregarious animal, a...

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.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Gnomic wisdom, however, is no...

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

George Santayana 613 quotes

There must ... be in our very...

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Man alone knows that he must ...

Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana 613 quotes

The mediocrity of everything ...

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt o...

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Trust the man who hesitates i...

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

George Santayana 613 quotes

The scientific value of truth...

The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science

George Santayana 613 quotes

Is it indeed from the experie...

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Nietzsche was personally more...

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Our occasional madness is les...

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Unmitigated seriousness is al...

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Let a man once overcome his s...

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

George Santayana 613 quotes

There is wisdom in turning as...

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

George Santayana 613 quotes

love make us poets, and the a...

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

George Santayana 613 quotes

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