Tag: George Santayana
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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
George Santayana
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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
George Santayana
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
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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.
George Santayana
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana
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Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
George Santayana
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
George Santayana
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana