Tag: George Santayana
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Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana
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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana