#on

I like to walk about among 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

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

— George Santayana

#egotism #form #intolerance #share

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ↗

— George Santayana

#force #passion #revenge #sometimes #superior

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

— George Santayana

#controlled #dreadful #geography #indignity #me

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

— George Santayana

#benefit #fashion #imitation #innovation #produces

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

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. ↗

— George Santayana

#common #common sense #good #limited #nonsense

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

— George Santayana

#being #brief #condition #inspired

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. ↗

— George Santayana

#character #happiness #sanction

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. ↗