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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.


George Santayana

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GEORGE SANTAYANA One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
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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.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight i...
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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 ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no dunce like a mature dunce
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