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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
Beauty
Disguise
Lovers
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
George Santayana
Mind
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana
Love
Fame
Vanity
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
Education
Experience
Ideas
Difficulty
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
Family
Nature
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
George Santayana
Time
Optimism
Evil
Existence
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana
Art
Effort
Existence
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana
Truth
Dream
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
George Santayana
Man
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Friendship
People
Mind
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
Body
Mind
Reward
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
George Santayana
Wife
Character
Man
May
Old
Philosophy
Pleasure
Strangers
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
George Santayana
Bible
Literature
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana
Inspiration
Bible
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
George Santayana
Fear
Gods
First