Tag: George Santayana
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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
George Santayana
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
George Santayana
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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
George Santayana
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana
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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
George Santayana