George Santayana Philosophical Quotes — Page 11

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.”

War Buddhism Ambition

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

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

Philosophy Church Bed

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Philosophical

“My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.”

Soul Hate

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Philosophical

“Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.”

Reason Stronger

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Philosophical

“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.”

Firsts God Atheism

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Philosophical

“It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.”

Grace Depth Elude

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Philosophical

“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.”

Heart Reality Philosophy

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Philosophical

“Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.”

Function Dear Adopted

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Philosophical

“To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.”

Self Useless Occupation

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Philosophical

“Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest capacity both for enjoyment and creation is highly specialized and exclusive, and hence the greatest ages of art have often been strangely intolerant. The invectives of one school against another, perverse as they are philosophically, are artistically often signs of health, because they indicate a vital appreciation of certain kinds of beauty, a love of them that has grown into a jealous passion.”

Art Passion Appreciation

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Philosophical

“The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.”

Order Memories Support

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Philosophical

“The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.”

Believe Long Life

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George Santayana — Philosophical Quotes

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