George Santayana — Philosophical Quotes

188 quotes · Philosopher, Poet

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George Santayana Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Spiritual Love 188 quotes · page 10 of 16

George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.”

Religious Language Speak

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.”

Men Language Historical

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Philosophical

“Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.”

Philosophy College

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Philosophical

“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.”

Education Judgment

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Philosophical

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”

Running Order Holiday

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Philosophical

“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.”

Men Soul Vision

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Philosophical

“Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.”

Wonderful Insanity

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Philosophical

“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”

Men Sleep

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Philosophical

“Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.”

May Different Knowledge

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Philosophical

“He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.”

Thinking Believe Vision

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Philosophical

“The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.”

Battle Clouds Lightning

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Philosophical

“Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.”

Vision Arms Echoes

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