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World Quotes by George Santayana
- A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
- All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.
- If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your…
- Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.
- To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.
- A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
- The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
- The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy…
- Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy,…
- Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest…
- Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of…
- What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?
- There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.
- A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted…
- In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
- The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
- I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions,…
- A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
- Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
- The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage…
- There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The…
- To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
- Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.
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