George Santayana — Philosophical Quotes

188 quotes · Philosopher, Poet

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George Santayana Quotes

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.”

Religion Causes Miracle

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.”

Light Faith Knowledge

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Philosophical

“Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.”

Quality Progress Speak

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Philosophical

“Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.”

World Faith

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Philosophical

“Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.”

Men Lying

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Philosophical

“Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.”

Truth Circumstances Mortals

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Philosophical

“The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science”

Running Science Errors

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Philosophical

“In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.”

Authority Oneself Tendencies

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Philosophical

“Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”

Age Spirit Adventure

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Philosophical

“It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”

Simple Philosophy Facts

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Philosophical

“Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.”

Beautiful Pain Women

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Philosophical

“In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.”

Mind Philosophical Unexpected

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