George Santayana

(14 votes)   Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Santayana
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(711 votes)   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.

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(486 votes)   Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(445 votes)   The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

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1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(405 votes)   There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(355 votes)   The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(336 votes)   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
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(321 votes)   It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

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1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(305 votes)   The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

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1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(234 votes)   Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(218 votes)   Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(183 votes)   To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

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1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(173 votes)   Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

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1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(165 votes)   There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

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1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(164 votes)   Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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