Tag: George Santayana

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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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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Sanity is a madness put to good use.

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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

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The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests.

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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

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The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

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