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Quotes from Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies — George Santayana

1863–1952 Spain

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14 quotes

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

Never since the heroic days of Greece has the world had such a sweet, just, boyish master.

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

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

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

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

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

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.

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.

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The living have never shown me how to live.

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

To the mind of the ancients, who knew something of such matters, liberty and prosperity seemed hardly compatible, yet modern liberalism wants them together.

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

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

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

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.

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.

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

Liberalism has merely cleared a field in which every soul and every corporate interest may fight with every other for domination. Whoever is victorious in this struggle will make an end of liberalism; and the new order, which will deem itself saved, will have to defend itself in the following age against a new crop of rebels.

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Santayana (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.