George Santayana

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. ↗

— George Santayana

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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. ↗

— George Santayana

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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. ↗

— George Santayana

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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ↗

— George Santayana

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. ↗

— George Santayana

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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. ↗

— George Santayana

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. ↗

— George Santayana

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Music is essentially useless, as is life. ↗

— George Santayana

#life #music #useless

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. ↗

— George Santayana

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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. ↗

— George Santayana

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