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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
Men
Women
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
Happiness
Life
Existence
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
George Santayana
Nothing
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana
Soul
Body
Nothing
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
George Santayana
Common sense
Nonsense
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
George Santayana
People
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
George Santayana
Life
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
George Santayana
Fun
Nothing
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
George Santayana
Design
Eccentricity
Paradise
Heresy
Hobbies
Individuality
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
George Santayana
Dignity
Man
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana
Religion
Victory
Wealth
Military
Worth
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
George Santayana
Soul
World
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Chaos
Confusion
Name
Order
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
Dream
Artist
World
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana
Power
Nature
Man
Questions