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In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else

In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else

George Santayana
Tunes, Concerts, Oneself

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

George Santayana
Children, Eye, Artist
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.312, Indiana University Press

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

George Santayana
Criticism, Facts, Judgment
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.14, Courier Corporation

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

George Santayana
Travel, Character, May
George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

George Santayana
Heart, Thinking, Light
George Santayana “The Works of George Santayana: The sense of beauty. Poems. Lucifer. Overheard in Seville”

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

George Santayana
Mind, Suffering, Body
George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.33, MIT Press

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

George Santayana
Fate, Perfect, Lines
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

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

George Santayana
Nature, Firsts, Provoking
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.4, Рипол Классик

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

George Santayana
Ideas, Stronger, Progress

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana
Truth, Lying, Believe
George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.338, MIT Press

Docility is the observable half of reason.

George Santayana
Half, Opinion, Reason
George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.127, MIT Press

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

George Santayana
Family, Race, Class
George Santayana (1954). “The Life of Reason: Or, The Phases of Human Progress”, p.184, Prabhat Prakashan

All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

George Santayana
Beauty, Honored
George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.

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

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

George Santayana
Passion, Sacred, Way
George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

George Santayana
Small Changes, Hype, Currency
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.110, 谷月社

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

George Santayana
Art, Pride, Skills

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

George Santayana
Way, World, Earth
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.310, Indiana University Press

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

George Santayana
Real, Soul, Spirituality
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.

George Santayana
Peace, Men, Passionate
George Santayana (2002). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3”, MIT Press

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

George Santayana
Emotional, Weakness, Emotional Life

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

George Santayana
Wisdom, Men, Intelligence
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.50, Рипол Классик

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

George Santayana
Elude, Classic, Psychological
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.533, Indiana University Press

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

George Santayana
Apes, Irrational, Terrible
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.44, MIT Press

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

George Santayana
Faith, Religious, Science

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