Tag: George Santayana
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
George Santayana
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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George Santayana
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
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The spirit’s foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana
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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
George Santayana
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana