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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Life, Birthday
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

George Santayana
Life, Men, Made

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

George Santayana
Life, Predicaments, Spectacles
Articles and Essays

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

George Santayana
Life, Kindness, Philosophy

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

George Santayana
Life, Laughter, Confused
George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

George Santayana
Life, Beautiful, Aggravation
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Life, Peace
George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

George Santayana
Life, Anxiety, Honor

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana
Life, Believe, Long
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.60, Indiana University Press

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

George Santayana
Life, Art, Peace
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.107, MIT Press

It is the acme of life to understand life.

George Santayana
Life
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.143, Рипол Классик

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

George Santayana
Life, Sad, Soul
"Dialogues in Limbo" by George Santayana, (Ch. 3, p. 62), 1926.

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