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Us 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…
- Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
- You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.
- 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…
- Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we…
- It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our…
- 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…
- Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice…
- Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
- If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
- Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
- love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
- The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a…
- A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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