George Santayana
Spanish - American philosopher
Lived from: 1863 - 1952
Category: Philosophers Country: United States
Born: 2 october 1863 Died: 16 september 1952
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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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 uncompromising sincerity.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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Consciousness is a very superficial thing.
Source: Letters of G. Santayana― George Santayana -
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
Source: The life of reason (1906)― George Santayana
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