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9076 quotesFun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
Fun
George Santayana
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Habit is stronger than reason.
Habit
George Santayana
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
History and Historians
George Santayana
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
Intolerance
George Santayana
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Advantage
George Santayana
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
Saints
George Santayana
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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Unhappiness
George Santayana
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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Knowledge
George Santayana
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
Life and Living
George Santayana
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Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
Nonsense
George Santayana
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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
Sacrifice
George Santayana
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Dignity
George Santayana
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Dignity
George Santayana
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Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
Sanity
George Santayana
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
Skepticism
George Santayana
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Body
George Santayana
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
Arts and Artists
George Santayana
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Fame
George Santayana
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
Institutions
George Santayana
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
Spirit and Spirituality
George Santayana
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
Space
George Santayana
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
Sympathy
George Santayana
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Past
George Santayana
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
Words
George Santayana
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Worth
George Santayana
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun