One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George SantayanaScepticism 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.
George SantayanaMots clés skepticism freethinking contact
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
George SantayanaMots clés superstition
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
George SantayanaWhat is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open; to be detatched from the world without being hostile to it; to welcome fugitive beauties and pity fugitive sufferings, without forgetting for a moment how fugitive they are.
George SantayanaTo knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.
George SantayanaThe Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George SantayanaMots clés impossibility
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George SantayanaMots clés happiness
There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society and the genteel conventions, but hadn't enough intelligence or enough conceit to think themselves transcendentalists or poets, in the style of Thoreau or of Walt Whitman.
George SantayanaThe worship of power is an old religion.
George SantayanaMots clés wisdom power religion
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