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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 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

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

George Santayana
Philosophy, Simple, Facts
George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

George Santayana
Art, Philosophy, Dangerous
George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

George Santayana
Art, Philosophy, Thoughtful

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

George Santayana
Philosophy, Character, Men
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.61, Indiana University Press

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

George Santayana
Philosophy, Philosophical, Hobbies
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.580, Indiana University Press

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

George Santayana
Peace, Philosophy, Harmony
George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

George Santayana
Philosophy, Church, Bed
George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.

George Santayana
Philosophy, Ideas, Detectives
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.201, Рипол Классик

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

George Santayana
Philosophy, Warrior, Depth
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.424, Indiana University Press

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”

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

George Santayana
God, Philosophy, Men
George Santayana (1954). “The Life of Reason ; Or, The Phases of Human Progress. One-volume Ed”

Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.

George Santayana
Philosophy, Philosophical, Expression
George Santayana (1998). “The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

George Santayana
Wisdom, Philosophy, Roots
George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.568, The Floating Press

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

George Santayana
Philosophy, Jealous, Want
"The Works of George Santayana".

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

George Santayana
Philosophy, May, Force
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.160, 谷月社

Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.

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

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

George Santayana
Philosophy, Men, Mind
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.115, 谷月社

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

George Santayana
Philosophy, Advantage, Phylosophy
The Unknowable (1923)

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

George Santayana
Philosophy, College, Oxford
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.215, Рипол Классик

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