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First Quotes by George Santayana
- Fear first created the gods.
- Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
- Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
- It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our…
- The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
- Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
- That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for…
- Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in…
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