George Santayana Quotes

471 quotes · Philosopher, Poet

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George Santayana Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Spiritual Love 471 quotes · page 21 of 40

George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

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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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Peaceful

“Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.”

Animal Blessed Peaceful

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Philosophical

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

Men Lying

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Love

“There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.”

Sympathy

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Sad

“Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.”

People Life Is Aroma

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Philosophical

“The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.”

Art Passion Queens

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Spiritual

“The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.”

Soul Littles

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Creative

“All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.”

Language Poet

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Philosophical

“It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.”

Atheism Honor Deities

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Sad

“Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.”

Art History Melancholy

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Love

“... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.”

Heart Love Surrender

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Thoughtful

“Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.”

Men Opinion Comforting

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