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• In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

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  Authority, Tendencies, Oneself

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.116, Transaction Publishers

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• Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Hobbies

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.580, Indiana University Press

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• The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

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  Men, Simplicity, Simple Life

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.204, 谷月社

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• It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

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  Wells, Pleasant, Can Do

  George Santayana (2002). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3”, MIT Press

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• Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

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  Inattention, Contempt, Familiarity Breeds Contempt

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

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  Stupidity, Mature, Dunces

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

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  Vanity, Support, Forgiving

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.84, 谷月社

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• Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

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  Drama, Ideas, Imagination

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.89, MIT Press

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• Los juramentos son los fósiles de la piedad.

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  Promise, Fossils, Swearing

  George Santayana (1950). "Átomos del pensamiento: Una antología de pensamientos"

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• 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.

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  World, Moments, Contradiction

  George Santayana (1936). "Las obras de George Santayana"

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• Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

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  Affair, Seriousness, Humans

  George Santayana (1937). "Las obras de George Santayana"

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• La sabiduría gnómica, sin embargo, es notoriamente policroma, y los proverbios dependen para su verdad enteramente de la ocasión a la que se aplican. Casi todos los refranes sabios tienen un refrán opuesto, no menos sabio, para equilibrarlos.

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  Wise, Opposites, Balance

  George Santayana (1936). “The works of George Santayana”

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• To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

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  Ideas, Events, Literature

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.286, 谷月社

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• Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

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  Selfish, Men, Overcoming

  "Little Essays Drawn from the Writings of George Santayana".

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• El diseño gráfico es el paraíso de la individualidad, la excentricidad, la herejía, la anormalidad, las manías y el humor.

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  Design, Individuality, Hobbies

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• A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

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  Carácter, Grandeza, Hombres

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

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  Truth, Circumstances, Mortals

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

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• I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

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  Happiness, Believe, Passion

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.231, MIT Press

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• Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

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  Passion, Knowing, Religion

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.159, 谷月社

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• Sin embargo, el valor científico de la verdad no es último ni absoluto. Se basa en parte en intereses prácticos y en parte en intereses estéticos. A medida que nuestras ideas se ajustan gradualmente a los hechos mediante el doloroso proceso de la selección -pues la intuición corre por igual hacia la verdad y hacia el error, y no puede resolver nada si no está controlada por la experiencia-, ganamos enormemente en el dominio de nuestro entorno. Este es el valor fundamental de la ciencia natural

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  Running, Science, Errors

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.

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  Passion, Recognition, Contemplation

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• El instinto bien educado se encuentra con la razón a medio camino

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  Intuition, Reason, Instinct

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.17, MIT Press

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• La tendencia a reunir y criar filósofos en las universidades no pertenece a épocas de reflexión libre y humana: es escolástica y propia de la Edad Media y de Alemania.

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  Reflection, Age, Doe

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

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  Passion, Thinking, Fancy

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

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  Men, Long, Speech

  George Santayana (1937). "Las obras de George Santayana"

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