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Any Quotes by George Santayana
- The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with…
- Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own…
- Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified…
- The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
- Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of…
- Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.
- 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…
- Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
- With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
- Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley,…
- Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.
- Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
- The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
- I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions,…
- The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
- The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions…
- To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best,…
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