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(742 votes)  Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(739 votes)  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
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(652 votes)  Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(601 votes)  Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(545 votes)  The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(542 votes)  The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(528 votes)  The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(521 votes)  Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(493 votes)  Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

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1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(491 votes)  The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(485 votes)  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

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(481 votes)  The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(468 votes)  Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(463 votes)  Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

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1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(453 votes)  Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(368 votes)  It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(359 votes)  To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(300 votes)  The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(299 votes)  It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(291 votes)  Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(284 votes)  America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(249 votes)  The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(241 votes)  Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(231 votes)  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
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(226 votes)  Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(225 votes)  Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(224 votes)  If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(222 votes)  Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

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1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(221 votes)  Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

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1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(218 votes)  Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(215 votes)  The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(215 votes)  Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(215 votes)  Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(214 votes)  Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(214 votes)  There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(213 votes)  By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(212 votes)  A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(211 votes)  Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(211 votes)  That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(208 votes)  Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(208 votes)  The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(208 votes)  To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(206 votes)  Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(205 votes)  There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(204 votes)  Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(204 votes)  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
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(202 votes)  The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(202 votes)  The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(195 votes)  The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

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1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(187 votes)  Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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