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• Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, Buddhist, Men

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• Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

  George Santayana

  Imagination, Religion, Atheism

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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

  George Santayana

  Religion, Advertising, Argument

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

  George Santayana

  Love, Positive, Happiness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1053, The Floating Press

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• The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

  George Santayana

  Exercise, Thinking, People

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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

  George Santayana

  Sleep, Men, Hair

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• The earth has music for those who listen.

  George Santayana

  Music, Encouragement, Art

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• To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

  George Santayana

  Patriotic, Soul, Patriotism

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.192, MIT Press

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• Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

  George Santayana

  Vigilance, Eternal, Eternal Vigilance

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.537, Indiana University Press

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• Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

  George Santayana

  Miracle, Religion, Causes

  The Ethics of Spinoza introduction (1910)

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• I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Simple Life

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

  George Santayana

  Men, Drink, Reconcile

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.27, Рипол Классик

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

  George Santayana

  Religious, Language, Speak

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• Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

  George Santayana

  Atheism, Life Is, Blindness

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

  George Santayana

  Education, Careers, Moral

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.79, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

  George Santayana

  Writing History, Needs, Historian

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.378, 谷月社

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• Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

  George Santayana

  Courage, Humility, Men

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

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• We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

  George Santayana

  Should Have, Illusion, Irrational

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.136, MIT Press

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• The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Freedom, Liberty

  Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"

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• He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

  George Santayana

  Believe, Thinking, Vision

  George Santayana (2013). “Scepticism and Animal Faith”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  George Santayana

  Men, Comforting, Opinion

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.108, 谷月社

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• Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

  George Santayana

  Free Gifts, Miracle, Moments

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.340, Indiana University Press

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• 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.

  George Santayana

  Men, Soul, Vision

  'Little Essays' (1920) 'Ideal Immortality'

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• Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

  George Santayana

  Equilibrium, Idiocy, Universe

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Laughter, Mad

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

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