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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindn... - MORE It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

United States

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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

George Santayana

philosophical

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Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to... - MORE Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through, that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.

George Santayana

nature

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Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, a... - MORE Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.

George Santayana

philosophical | enthusiasm

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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

George Santayana

experience

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The language and traditions common to England and America are like other family bonds: they draw kindred together at the greater c... - MORE The language and traditions common to England and America are like other family bonds: they draw kindred together at the greater crises of life, but they also occasion at times a little friction and fault-finding. The groundwork of the two societies is so similar, that each nation, feeling almost at home with the other, and almost able to understand its speech, may instinctively resent what hinders it from feeling at home altogether. Dif ferences will tend to seem anomalies that have slipped in by mistake and through somebody's fault. Each will judge the other by his own standards, not feeling, as in the presence of complete foreigners, that he must make an effort of imagination and put himself in another man's shoes.

George Santayana

England | United States

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One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of f... - MORE One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.

George Santayana

American philosophy

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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

George Santayana

philosophical | art

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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

George Santayana

optimism | evil

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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities and ... - MORE The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities and relations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

George Santayana

truth

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