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Inspirational Quotes by George Santayana
- Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
- The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
- Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
- To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
- Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.
- Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity…
- Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
- Docility is the observable half of reason.
- Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
- There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
- Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
- History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
- Fear first created the gods.
- The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
- Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
- The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
- Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
- It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
- Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
- Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
- There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
- People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
- ...so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and…
- Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
- The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again
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