GSGeorge Santayana

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George Santayana

Life dates: 1863 AD — 1952 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1907 AD

There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

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02c. 1907 AD

Habit is stronger than reason.

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03c. 1907 AD

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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04c. 1907 AD

I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.

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05c. 1907 AD

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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06c. 1907 AD

Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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07c. 1907 AD

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.

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08c. 1907 AD

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

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09c. 1907 AD

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

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10c. 1907 AD

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

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11c. 1907 AD

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.

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12c. 1907 AD

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

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13c. 1907 AD

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

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14c. 1907 AD

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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15c. 1907 AD

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16c. 1907 AD

Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

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17c. 1907 AD

Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.

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18c. 1907 AD

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

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19c. 1907 AD

Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

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20c. 1907 AD

My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.

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21c. 1907 AD

Work and love - these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.

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22c. 1907 AD

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

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23c. 1907 AD

Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

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24c. 1907 AD

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

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