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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

George Santayana
Hate, Opportunity, Men
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.90, MIT Press

All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.

George Santayana
Break A Leg, Legs, Left Behind
George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

George Santayana
Emotional, Feelings, Affinity
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.17, MIT Press

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

George Santayana
Men, Imagination, Superstitions
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.54, Рипол Классик

Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.

George Santayana
Beautiful, Pain, Women
George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

George Santayana
Children, And Love, Natural
George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

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

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

George Santayana
Pain, Long Ago, Should
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.136, MIT Press

Memory... is an internal rumor.

George Santayana
Memories, Rumor, Internals

There is no right government except good government.

George Santayana
Government
George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

George Santayana
Long, Advice, Beard
George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

George Santayana
Art, Queens, Passion
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

George Santayana
Men, Evil, Savages
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.57, 谷月社

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

George Santayana
Believe, People, World

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

George Santayana
World, Spirituality, Should
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.112, Рипол Классик

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

George Santayana
Experience, Glimpse, Causes
George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2003). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5”, MIT Press

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

George Santayana
Dignity, Internet, Free Speech
"Quotations for Our Time" edited by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

George Santayana
Vices, Genius, Rebellious
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.120, Рипол Классик

A friend's only gift is himself.

George Santayana
Love, Self Love
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.88, 谷月社

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

George Santayana
Home, Men, Mind
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

George Santayana
Memories, Order, Support
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

George Santayana
Blessed, Animal, Peaceful
George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

George Santayana
Music, Mean, Giving
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.134, Рипол Классик

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

George Santayana
Powerful, America, Optimism
George Santayana (1921). “Character & Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America”

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

George Santayana
Profound, Doubt, Criticism
"Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies". Book by George Santayana, 1922.

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