Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
George Santayana
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious that that they are true.
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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.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA America is a young country with an old mentality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
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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 ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no dunce like a mature dunce
GEORGE SANTAYANA