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Sense Quotes by George Santayana
- The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it…
- The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's…
- Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.
- The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of…
- 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…
- Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
- Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
- Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
- Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome
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