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George Santayana Quotes: What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
         

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .


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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.



To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.



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.

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.



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.



The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.



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.

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.



Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.



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

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



Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.



The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.





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You made me face something I should have faced a long time ago. I'm grateful. And I should have never asked you to leave. You don't ask someone you to love to walk out of your life

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Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.




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