Inspirational Quotes

George Santayana

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

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

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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.

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

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The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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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.

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.

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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

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One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace

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Fanatacism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim

Fanatacism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim

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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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