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Been Quotes by 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…
- Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether.
- Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
- There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to…
- The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
- 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…
- There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves…
- 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…
- A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of…
- The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
- If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
- History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and…
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