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It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

George Santayana
Friendship, Sight, Giving
George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

George Santayana
Love, Men, Giving
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.99, Рипол Классик

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

George Santayana
Art, Men, Giving
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.84, MIT Press

Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

George Santayana
Giving, Healthy, Special

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