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Philosophers Quotes by George Santayana
- Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise.
- Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
- It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
- Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
- The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper…
- love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
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