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To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.


George Santayana

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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 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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