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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana
Life, Motivational, Friendship
George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

George Santayana
Achievement, Creative, Action
"10 Quotes: Inspire and Motivate" by Sura College of Competition, p. 28, August 1, 2004.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

George Santayana
Facts, Immortality, Born
George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.805, The Floating Press

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

George Santayana
Affinity, Great Bond, Dislike
George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, MIT Press

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

George Santayana
Time, Knowing, Eternity
George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.

George Santayana
Men, Eulogy, Quality
Benedictus de Spinoza, George Santayana (1910). “Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione".”

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

George Santayana
Hate, Self, Rejection
George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

George Santayana
Real, Believe, Sadness

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

George Santayana
Voice, Soul, Body
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.310, MIT Press

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

George Santayana
Life, Anxiety, Honor

By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.

George Santayana
Essence, Degrees, May

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

George Santayana
Men, Lost Friendship, Widows
George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.

George Santayana
Death, Finals, Ends
George Santayana (2003). “The Works of George Santayana”

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

George Santayana
Important, Looks, World
George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Inspired, Conditions
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.141, Рипол Классик

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

George Santayana
Mean, Government, Political
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.45, MIT Press

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

George Santayana
Doubt, Atheism, Would Be
George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

George Santayana
Time, Nature, Science
George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

George Santayana
Grace, Depth, Elude
George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

George Santayana
Philosophy, Warrior, Depth
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.424, Indiana University Press

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.

George Santayana
Revenge, Passion, Thinking
George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.150, MIT Press

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

George Santayana
Sympathy
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.37, Рипол Классик

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana
Children, Memories, Parent
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

George Santayana
Substance, Causes, Opinion
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2014). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three”, p.305, MIT Press

The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.

George Santayana
Pints, Ifs
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.538, Indiana University Press

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