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George Santayana quote: "Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness."

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Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.


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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humo...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes som...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned ...
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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the anci...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recog...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships ...
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing t...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
GEORGE SANTAYANA
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the med...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minute...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious that that they are true.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Life is not a spectacle or a feast: it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
America is a young country with an old mentality.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judg...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentabl...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there rem...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blo...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing with...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imagin...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation sho...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot thr...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Consciousness is a born hermit.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
My atheism, like that of GEORGE SANTAYANA Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it mus...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
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