Tag: George Santayana

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

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Music is essentially useless, as life is.

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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

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One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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Our character…is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

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