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All Quotes by author - George Santayana

" A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. "

" A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. "

" Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. "

" All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. "

" All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. "

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

" A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. "

" America is a young country with an old mentality. "

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

" A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. "

" 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. "

" Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. "

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

" By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. "

" Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. "

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

" Depression is rage spread thin. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. "

" Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. "

" Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. "

" Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. "

" For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. "

" For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. "

" Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. "

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

" Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. "

" Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. "

" Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. "

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