George Santayana Quotes

471 quotes · Philosopher, Poet

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George Santayana Quotes

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.”

Long Firsts Lasts

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.”

Men Historical Rivals

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Philosophical

“The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.”

Needs Commitment

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Funny

“Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.”

Humans Affair

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Angry

“Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.”

Enemy Weapons Argument

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Philosophical

“In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.”

Lying Choices Expression

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Wise

“Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.”

Art Republican

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Courageous

“For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.”

Men Fire

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Philosophical

“A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.”

Ideas Mind Growth

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Wise

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

Men Nature Questions And Answers

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Peaceful

“Heaven is to be at peace with things.”

Heaven Inner Peace

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Philosophical

“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”

Internet Dignity

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