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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana
Faith
Thought
Heart
Light
Thinking
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
George Santayana
Friend
Man
Old
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana
Happiness
Character
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
George Santayana
Friends
Intimacy
Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana
Depression
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.
George Santayana
Men
People
Evil
Friends
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.
George Santayana
Peace
Religion
Soul
Destiny
Help
Myth
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George Santayana
Emotion
End
Nothing
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
George Santayana
Experience
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
Effort
Fanaticism
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
Fashion
Imitation
Innovation
Reason
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana
Death
Duty
Man
Sleep
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
Advertising
Argument
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
Men
Women
Sex
Friends
America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana
America
Country
Old