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George Santayana
Spanish
Philosopher
Born:
Dec 16
,
1863
Died:
Sep 26
,
1952
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Experience
Good
Man
Men
World
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Aristotle
Confucius
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Plato
Socrates
Sun Tzu
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana
Arrogant
Down
Angle
Delight
Knock
Blood
Deep
Thing
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana
Conversation
Primary
Talk
Impulse
Use
Satisfy
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
George Santayana
Man
Selfish
Overcome
Own
Sense
Once
Terror
His
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana
Nature
Man
Power
Disposition
Kindly
Beyond
Most
Him
Answer
Occur
Questions
Which
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
George Santayana
Inspired
Almost
Condition
Being
Brief
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana
Faith
Alone
Heart
Light
Thought
Shine
Thinking
Tender
Divine
Mortal
Unto
Bid
Led
Which
Then
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
George Santayana
Together
Other
Everything
Intimacy
Always
Go
Friends
Friendships
Same
Agree
Comparable
Need
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
George Santayana
Mind
Ancient
City
Sedentary
Like
Renaissance
Pilgrim
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
George Santayana
Love
Art
Dangerous
Philosophy
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana
Reflection
Free
Humane
Philosophers
Proper
Tendency
Scholastic
Does
Germany
Middle
Middle Ages
Ages
Breed
Belong
Universities
Gather
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana
Welcome
Whatever
Living
Else
Monstrous
Possible
Pronounce
Wrong
Ready
Souls
Deny
Ignore
Cope
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
Intolerance
Share
Condemn
Egotism
Form
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
Stronger
Habit
Than
Reason
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
George Santayana
Soul
World
Long
Bubble
Last
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