Tag: George Santayana
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
George Santayana
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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
George Santayana
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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.
George Santayana
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
George Santayana
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
George Santayana
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana