Tag: George Santayana
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
George Santayana
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana
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Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana
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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
George Santayana
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
George Santayana
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana
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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
George Santayana
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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana