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- A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
- George Santayana
- A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
- George Santayana
- Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
- George Santayana
- America is a young country with an old mentality.
- George Santayana
- Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
- George Santayana
- Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
- George Santayana
- Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
- George Santayana
- If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.
- George Santayana
- Life is not a spectacle or a feast: it is a predicament.
- George Santayana
- Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament.
- George Santayana
- People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious that that they are true.
- George Santayana
- Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
- George Santayana
- Sanity is a madness put to good use.
- George Santayana
- Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
- George Santayana
- Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
- George Santayana
- The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
- George Santayana
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it.
- George Santayana
- The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- George Santayana
- Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
- George Santayana
- To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- George Santayana
- To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
- George Santayana
- What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
- George Santayana
- Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
- George Santayana
- Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
- George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis"
- The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. - George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3
- Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
- George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
- Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
- Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
- Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
- George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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