George Santayana

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. ↗

— George Santayana

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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. ↗

— George Santayana

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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. ↗

— George Santayana

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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ↗

— George Santayana

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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. ↗

— George Santayana

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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. ↗

— George Santayana

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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. ↗

— George Santayana

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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. ↗

— George Santayana

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