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Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

George Santayana
Imagination, Religion, Atheism

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

George Santayana
Imagination, Vivid, Taste
George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

George Santayana
Drama, Ideas, Imagination
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.89, MIT Press

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

George Santayana
Imagination, Regard
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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

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

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

George Santayana
Art, Imagination, Demand
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

George Santayana
Real, Imagination, Fantasy
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.99, Рипол Классик

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

George Santayana
Reality, Imagination, Degrees
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.70, MIT Press

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Opportunity, Imagination
George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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