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George Santayana has 402 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he…
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that…
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
— George Santayana
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A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and…
— John Hodgman
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Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw…
— Jack Gilbert
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What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state…
— Philip Guston
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That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin…
— Michael Chabon
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But like the legless man, I'm unaccountably fascinated by those who can dance.
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you…
— Ann Brashares
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The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the…
— Isaac Marion
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