#con

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ↗

— George Santayana

#chaos #confusion #minds #name #order

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. ↗

— George Santayana

#egotism #form #intolerance #share

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ↗

— George Santayana

#controlled #dreadful #geography #indignity #me

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. ↗

— George Santayana

#consistent #easier #fact #false #in fact

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. ↗

— George Santayana

#being #brief #condition #inspired

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. ↗

— George Santayana

#impulse #primary #satisfy #talk #use

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. ↗

— George Santayana

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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. ↗

— George Santayana

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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. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ↗

— George Santayana

#conventions #courtesy #doubts #far #kind