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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF George Santayana |
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Quotes By author - Starting with G - George Santayana
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There are 94 quotes for the author George Santayana
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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Appearance & Attitudes
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Past
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
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Wisdom
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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Birth
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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Death
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Facts
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
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Age
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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Music
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
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There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
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O World, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
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Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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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.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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