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“Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.”

George Santayana

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

“Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand. The whole world is doing things.”

George Santayana

Source: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion (1913), p. 199

“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.”

George Santayana

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

“Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.”

George Santayana

Introduction to The Ethics of Spinoza (1910)

“Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.”

George Santayana

Source: Persons and Places (1944), p. 61

“Religions are not true or false, but better or worse.”

George Santayana

This statement is presented in quotes in The Philosophy of Religion and Advaita Vedanta (2008) by Arvind Sharma, p. 216, as a "Santayanan point", but earlier publications by the same author, such as in A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion‎ (2006), p. 161, state it to be a stance of Santayana without actually indicating or in any ways implying that it is a direct quotation.
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“The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.”

George Santayana

Source: The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911), p. 60

“It is not politics that can bring true liberty to the soul; that must be achieved, if at all, by philosophy;”

George Santayana

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

“Whenever a nation is converted to Christianity, its Christianity, in practice, must be largely converted to paganism.”

George Santayana

Source: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion (1913), p. 36

“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.”

George Santayana

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

“[Everything] ideal has a natural basis and everything natural an ideal development.”

George Santayana

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense

“Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”

George Santayana

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The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense