The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.George Santayana
An artist may visit a museum, but only a pedant can live there
George Santayana
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.... What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.
George Santayana
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
George Santayana
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
George Santayana
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