George Santayana Quotes

471 quotes · Philosopher, Poet

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George Santayana Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Spiritual Love 471 quotes · page 19 of 40

George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Angry

“The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.”

Terrible Apes Irrational

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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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Philosophical

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

Quality Progress

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Wise

“It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.”

Wells Can Do

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Philosophical

“Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.”

Religion Fairy Tale Tales

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Lonely

“The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.”

World Friendship

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Grateful

“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age”

Age Inspiration

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Spiritual

“Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.”

People Prayer Effort

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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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Wise

“To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.”

Imagination Taste Vivid

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Wise

“The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.”

World Intellectual Mediocrity

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Creative

“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”

Life Laughter Confused

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