George Santayana — Philosophical Quotes

188 quotes · Philosopher, Poet

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George Santayana Quotes

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.”

Philosophy Warrior Depth

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.”

Mean Government Political

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Philosophical

“Memory... is an internal rumor.”

Memories Rumor

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Philosophical

“It is the acme of life to understand life.”

Life

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Philosophical

“Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.”

May Philosophy Force

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Philosophical

“The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.”

Two Lying Tragedy

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Philosophical

“Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.”

Chaos Bottom

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Philosophical

“An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.”

Waiting Realization

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Philosophical

“The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.”

Memories Pleasure Poverty

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Philosophical

“Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.”

Done Sake Experience

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Philosophical

“For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.”

Matter Choices Atheism

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Philosophical

“Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!”

Hands Grace Here I Am

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