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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

George Santayana
Progress, Quality, Speak
George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.7, The Floating Press

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

George Santayana
Confidence, Inspire, Quality
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.154, Courier Corporation

When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.

George Santayana
Men, Eulogy, Quality
Benedictus de Spinoza, George Santayana (1910). “Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione".”

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

George Santayana
Truth, Mean, Quality
George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.72, Sheba Blake Publishing

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