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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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The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our…
— George Santayana
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It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.
— Fernando Henrique Cardoso
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I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal,…
— Albert Einstein
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Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent…
— Debbie Stabenow
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One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing…
— Janet Yellen
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Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
— Howard Rheingold
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Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism…
— Andrew Sullivan
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Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off. Because if not, how…
— Alyson Noel
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
— James D. Watson
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