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George Santayana has 402 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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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…
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that…
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…
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There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
— George Santayana
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As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the…
— Clive James
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There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is…
— Robert Bellarmine
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The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
— Daniel Tosh
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a…
— Rajneesh
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For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
— James Russell Lowell
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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
— Charles Churchill
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The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
— Emma Goldman
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
— William Cowper
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
— Alexander Pope
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I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously…
— Lisa Marie Presley
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