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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Category: Art Author: George Santayana
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Category: Attitude Author: George Santayana
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: George Santayana
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
Category: Confidence Author: George Santayana
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Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
Category: Conformity Author: George Santayana
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Category: Family Author: George Santayana
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Category: Friendship Author: George Santayana
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Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that "a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.
Category: God Author: George Santayana
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Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.
Category: History Author: George Santayana Source: The Life of Reason
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Category: History Author: George Santayana
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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
Category: Memory Author: George Santayana Source: The Life of Reason
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Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: George Santayana
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: George Santayana
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Category: Patriotism Author: George Santayana
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Category: Perspective Author: George Santayana
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Depression is rage spread thin.
Category: Psychology Author: George Santayana
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Sanity is madness put to good uses.
Category: Sanity Author: George Santayana Source: Little Essays
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Category: School Author: George Santayana
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
Category: Simplicity Author: George Santayana
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Category: Weather Author: George Santayana
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