George Santayana Quotes

471 quotes · Philosopher, Poet

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George Santayana Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Spiritual Love 471 quotes · page 17 of 40

George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Adventurous

“Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.”

Travel Dignity Fixed

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.”

Thinking Passion Revenge

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Philosophical

“Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.”

Pleasure Barbarism

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Philosophical

“The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.”

Soul Voice

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Philosophical

“There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.”

Would Be Doubt Atheism

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Philosophical

“Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.”

Doubt Criticism Profound

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Philosophical

“Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.”

Men Inspirational

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Nostalgic

“Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.”

Love Firsts

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Lonely

“Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.”

Self Memories Bird

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Funny

“why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.”

Together Absurd Transitory

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Philosophical

“Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.”

Character Past Order

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Grateful

“A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.”

Happiness Nature Grateful

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