George Santayana
Spanish - American philosopher
Lived from: 1863 - 1952
Category: Philosophers Country: 
United States
Born: 2 october 1863 Died: 16 september 1952
Quotes 61 till 80 of 104.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
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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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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
Dialogues in Limbo (1925)― George Santayana -
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
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The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
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