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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

George Santayana
Patriotic, Soul, Patriotism
George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.192, MIT Press

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

George Santayana
Nature, Soul, Conformity
George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.270, Cosimo, Inc.

Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana
Men, Soul, Vision
'Little Essays' (1920) 'Ideal Immortality'

The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

George Santayana
Soul, Littles, Fruit
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.136, Indiana University Press

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

George Santayana
Long, Soul, World
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.83, Рипол Классик

Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.

George Santayana
Religious, Soul, Atheism
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.51, 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”

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

George Santayana
Voice, Soul, Body
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.310, MIT Press

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

George Santayana
Play, Soul, World
George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana
Soul, Body, Spirituality
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.150, 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.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

George Santayana
Real, Soul, Spirituality
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.

George Santayana
Soul, Faces, Immortality
George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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