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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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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to…
— Alfred Adler
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It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates…
— Hillary Clinton
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Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did…
— Janet Morris
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
— Homer
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
— William Shakespeare
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
— Seneca the Younger
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
— Alexander Pope
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The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
— Janet Morris
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Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.
— Janet Morris
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Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of…
— William Shakespeare
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they…
— Unknown Author
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The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems…
— Murray Kempton
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