Tag: George Santayana
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
George Santayana
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
George Santayana
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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
George Santayana
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don’t understand it.
George Santayana
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
George Santayana
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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
George Santayana
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
George Santayana
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
George Santayana