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- The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- 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 enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Skepticism 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 Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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