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Most Quotes by George Santayana
- The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
- That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
- To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered…
- In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human…
- Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
- I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official…
- Man's most serious activity is play.
- At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may…
- Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
- By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
- The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
- The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.
- Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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