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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

George Santayana
Passion, Thinking, Fancy
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.129, Indiana University Press

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

George Santayana
Taken, Passion, World
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.280, Рипол Классик

Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

George Santayana
Wise, Taken, Passion

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

George Santayana
War, Passion, Ambition
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.272, Рипол Классик

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

George Santayana
Hate, Passion, Soul
George Santayana “The Works of George Santayana: The sense of beauty. Poems. Lucifer. Overheard in Seville”

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana
Love, Memories, Passion

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

George Santayana
Happiness, Believe, Passion
George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.231, MIT Press

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana
Passion, Knowing, Religion
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.159, 谷月社

In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.

George Santayana
Passion, Recognition, Contemplation
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.24, Courier Corporation

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana
Birthday, Passion, Pride
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.22, Рипол Классик

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

George Santayana
Revenge, Passion, Thinking
George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.150, MIT Press

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

George Santayana
Art, Queens, Passion
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest capacity both for enjoyment and creation is highly specialized and exclusive, and hence the greatest ages of art have often been strangely intolerant. The invectives of one school against another, perverse as they are philosophically, are artistically often signs of health, because they indicate a vital appreciation of certain kinds of beauty, a love of them that has grown into a jealous passion.

George Santayana
Appreciation, Art, Passion

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”

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