George Santayana

George Santayana

"If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation."
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"If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation."
George Santayana
"Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
George Santayana
"My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests."
George Santayana
"Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament."
George Santayana
"Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it."
George Santayana
"Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
George Santayana
"Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public."
George Santayana
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."
George Santayana
"By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all."
George Santayana
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
George Santayana
"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway."
George Santayana
"It is wisdom to believe the heart."
George Santayana
"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."
George Santayana
"Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired."
George Santayana
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
"It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility."
George Santayana
"Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence."
George Santayana
"Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
George Santayana
"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."
George Santayana
"Habit is stronger than reason."
George Santayana
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