George Santayana Quotes

471 quotes · Philosopher, Poet

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George Santayana Quotes

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.”

Race Class Family

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Angry

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”

Blood History Arrogant

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Philosophical

“Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.”

Wonderful Insanity

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Philosophical

“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”

Men Sleep

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Grateful

“Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.”

Sacrifice Making Sacrifices Sacrifice For Others

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Philosophical

“Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.”

Philosophy College

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Philosophical

“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.”

Education Judgment

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Wise

“Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations”

Long Funny Wisdom

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Philosophical

“To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.”

Religious Language Speak

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Philosophical

“What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.”

Men Language Historical

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Philosophical

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”

Running Order Holiday

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Philosophical

“Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”

Men Soul Vision

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