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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana
Courtesy
Press
Skepticism
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana
Facts
Ignorance
Theory
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana
Age
Old
Pride
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
George Santayana
Contradiction
World
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana
Experience
Word
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
Mind
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana
Truth
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana
Germany
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana
Man
Simplicity
Sophistication
Spirit
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
George Santayana
Soul
Body
Voice
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana
Conversation
Talk
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana
Experience
Children
Immortality
Memory
Parents
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
George Santayana
Wisdom
Hunger
Philosophy
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana
Patience
Spirits
Unhappiness
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana
Ideas
Facts