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George Santayana Quotes

"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.""There is no cure for life and death save to enjoy the interval.""A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.""Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.""Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.""The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms.""A man is morally free when, in an extant universe, he is capable of doing whatever he thinks is right, of thinking whatever he believes is true, and of feeling whatever he feels.""The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.""Experience seems to most of us, for instance, to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.""Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament.""The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.""Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.""The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.""The wisest mind has something yet to learn.""When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different""To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say""Sanity is a madness put to good uses""A child educated only at school is an uneducated child""There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval""Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots"
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