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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana in
Education
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana in
Science
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana
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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
George Santayana
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
George Santayana
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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
George Santayana
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
George Santayana
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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.
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