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Own Quotes by George Santayana
- Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own…
- A simple life is its own reward.
- Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
- Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not…
- It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
- The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and…
- There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves…
- Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
- My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be…
- Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome
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