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It is wisdom to believe the heart.

George Santayana

Believe, Heart

George Santayana (1979). “The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition”, Associated Univ Pr

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

George Santayana

Philosophy, Heart, Reality

Durant Drake, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, James Bissett Pratt, Arthur Kenyon Rogers, George Santayana (1920). “Essays in critical realism: a co-operative study of the problem of knowledge”

... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

George Santayana

Love, Heart, Surrender

"The Philosophy of Santayana: Selections from All the Works of George Santayana".

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

George Santayana

Heart, Eye, Men

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

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

George Santayana

Heart, Eye, Imagination

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.198, 谷月社

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

George Santayana

Heart, Men, Religion

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”

Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow, Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.

George Santayana

Peace, Stars, Heart

George Santayana (1979). “The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition”, Associated Univ Pr

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”

With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me.

George Santayana

Country, Memories, Heart

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.484, Indiana University Press