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“Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise.”

Source: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), P. 30

“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”

Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. III, Reason in Religion, Ch. VII

“At midday the daily food of all Spaniards was the puchero or cocido, as the dish is really called which the foreigners call pot-pourri or olla podrida. This contains principally yellow chick-peas, with a little bacon, some potatoes or other vegetables and normally also small pieces of beef or sausage, all boiled in one pot at a very slow fire; the liquid of the same makes the substantial broth that is served first.”

George Santayana

Source: Persons and Places (1944), p. 14

“I leave you but the sound of many a word
In mocking echoes haply overheard,
I sang to heaven. My exile made me free,
from world to world, from all worlds carried me.”

George Santayana

The Poet's Testament http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-poet-s-testament/ <br class="br">Other works

“The mind celebrates a little triumph whenever it can formulate a truth.”

George Santayana

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. IV, Reason in Art

“But what a perfection of rottenness in a philosophy!”

George Santayana

William James, of Santayana's The Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900), in a letter to George H. Palmer (1900), as quoted in George Santayana : A Biography (2003) by John McCormick
Misattributed

“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

"Dickens"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

“They [the wise spirits of antiquity in the first circle of Dante's Inferno] are condemned, Dante tells us, to no other penalty than to live in desire without hope, a fate appropriate to noble souls with a clear vision of life.”

George Santayana

Obiter Scripta (1936)
Other works

“Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.”

George Santayana

"On My Friendly Critics"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

“Prosperity, both for individuals and for states, means possessions; and possessions mean burdens and harness and slavery; and slavery for the mind, too, because it is not only the rich man's time that is pre-empted, but his affections, his judgement, and the range of his thoughts.”

George Santayana

"The Irony of Liberalism"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”

George Santayana

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society

“To know how just a cause we have for grieving is already a consolation.”

George Santayana

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. IV, Reason in Art

“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”

George Santayana

Source: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), Ch. 4

“American life is a powerful solvent. As it stamps the immigrant, almost before he can speak English, with an unmistakable muscular tension, cheery self-confidence and habitual challenge in the voice and eyes, so it seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.”

George Santayana

"The Academic Environment" p. 47 ( Hathi Trust http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3923968?urlappend=%3Bseq=63) <br class="br">Character and Opinion in the United States (1920)

“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.”

George Santayana

"The Irony of Liberalism"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

“The living have never shown me how to live.”

George Santayana

"On My Friendly Critics"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

“O world, thou choosest not the better part!
It is not wisdom to be only wise,
And on the inward vision close the eyes,
But it is wisdom to believe the heart.
Columbus found a world, and had no chart,
Save one that faith deciphered in the skies;
To trust the soul’s invincible surmise
Was all his science and his only art.”

George Santayana

O World, Thou Choosest Not http://www.bartleby.com/236/270.html (1894) <br class="br">Other works

“Most men’s conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continual comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.”

George Santayana

Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. VIII: Ideal Society