Santayana is usually considered an American writer by Americans. But, he said that he was most comfortable, intellectually and aesthetically, at Oxford. His materialistic, skeptical philosophy was never in tune with the Spanish world of his time. In the post-Franco era, he is gradually being recognized and.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Quotes [ ] The Sense of Beauty (1896) [ ];; • In fact, the whole machinery of our intelligence, our general and, fixed and external objects,,, and, are so many, algebraic expressions. They stand for; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Helps us to bear our of fact. III, Form; § 30: 'The average modified in the direction of pleasure.' 125 • as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it can never be said.

IV, Expression; § 67: 'Conclusion.' 267 • Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the and, and consequently a ground of in the supremacy of the. IV, Expression; § 67: 'Conclusion.' 270 The Life of Reason (1905-1906) [ ] Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense [ ] • [Everything] ideal has a natural basis and everything natural an ideal development.

• Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

• is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. • That life is worth living is the most of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. • consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. •, far from consisting in, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when is not retained, as among savages, is perpetual.

Those who cannot the are condemned to repeat it. • This famous statement has produced many paraphrases and variants: • Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. • Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes. • Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it. • Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them. • Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them. • There is a similar quote by (in ) that often leads to misattribution: 'People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.'

II, Reason in Society [ ] • The highest form of is love of. • The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is a queen, infinitely fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice. • To call the soil of and is like calling debauchery the soil of. III: Industry, Government, and War • It is not 's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. IV: The Aristocratic Ideal • Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

IV: The Aristocratic Ideal • What renders man an and being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in: the aims of,,, and. V: Democracy • When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their are always different. III, Reason in Religion [ ] • has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of 's that 'a little inclineth a man's mind to, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to.'

At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram. He forgot to add that the to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them. I • 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.

VI • is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. VII • Every moment celebrates obsequies over the virtues of its predecessor. XIV Vol.IV, Reason in Art [ ] • like should be, since both are experimental. V, Reason in Science [ ] • is but assisted and recorded.

It might almost be said to be no at all, if memory and faith in memory were not what science necessarily rest on. In order to sift evidence we must rely on some witness, and we must trust experience before we proceed to expand it. The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe. 2 'History' • When and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind.They were merely writing an eloquent epitaph for their country.

• Oblivious of, the unwilling materialists of our day have generally been awkwardly intellectual and quite incapable of. If they have felt anything, they have felt. Download Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince Free Mp4. Their allegiance and affection were still fixed on those mythical sentimental worlds which they saw to be illusory. The mechanical world they believed in could not please them, in spite of its extent and fertility. Giving rhetorical vent to their spleen and prejudice, they exaggerated nature's meagreness and mathematical dryness.

When their imagination was chilled they spoke of nature, most unwarrantably, as dead, and when their judgment was heated they took the next step and called it unreal. 3 'Mechanism' Introduction to The Ethics of (1910) [ ] • Let a man once overcome his terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

• Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. • are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily. • is, not dogma. The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911) [ ]. By their, its scope,, and temper, we estimate men, for by the mind only do we exist as men, and are more than so many storage-batteries for material. Let us therefore be frankly.

• Professional are usually only: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent. Like or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained. 48-49 • In is carried into and.

The various sights, moods, and are given each one vote; they are declared to be all free and equal, and the innumerable commonplace moments of life are suffered to speak like the others. Those formerly reputed great are not excluded, but they are made to march in the ranks with their companions—plain foot-soldiers and servants of the hour. 53 • vigilance is the price of. 58 • The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.

60 • Because the peculiarity of man is that his machinery for reaction on external things has involved an imaginative transcript of these things, which is preserved and suspended in his fancy; and the interest and of this inward landscape, rather than any fortunes that may await his body in the outer world, constitute his proper. By their, its scope,, and temper, we estimate men, for by the mind only do we exist as men, and are more than so many storage-batteries for material. Let us therefore be frankly.

Let us be content to live in the mind. 64 Little Essays (1921) [ ] • The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. 107 Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922) [ ] • England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors. • 'The British Character' • 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. • 'Dickens' • There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. • 'War Shrines' • 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. • 'The Irony of Liberalism' • Only the dead have seen the end of war.

• 'Tipperary' • My atheism, like that of, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. • 'On My Friendly Critics' • The living have never shown me how to live. • 'On My Friendly Critics' • Profound is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are. • 'On My Friendly Critics' • Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

• 'Friendships' (1923) [ ] • is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. • The Works of George Santayana p.

65 • [The empiricist] thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. • 'Objections to Belief in Substance', p. 201 Dialogues in Limbo (1926) [ ] • Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise. 30 • The soul, too, has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

• 'Normal Madness,' Ch. 3, • The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. 57 • All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. 62 • Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. 4 Character and Opinion in the United States (1920) [ ] • 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. • 'The Academic Environment' p.

47 () • All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg. • 'Materialism and Idealism' p. 175 () Persons and Places (1944) [ ] • 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. I once shook hands with Longfellow at a garden party in 1881; and I often saw Dr.

Holmes, who was our neighbor in Beacon Street: but Emerson I never saw. 50 • Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age. 61 • In solitude it is possible to love mankind; in the world, for one who knows the world, there can be nothing but secret or open war. 159 Other works [ ] • 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. • (1894) • In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour. 54 • Although a poem be not made by counting of syllables upon the fingers, yet 'numbers' is the most poetical synonym we have for verse, and 'measure' the most significant equivalent for beauty, for goodness, and perhaps even for truth. Those early and profound philosophers, the followers of Pythagoras, saw the essence of all things in number, and it was by weight, measure, and number, as we read in the Bible, that the Creator first brought Nature out of the void.

• Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900), p. 251 • There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable. • The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931) • 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. • Obiter Scripta (1936) • Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

•, as quoted in Quotations for Our Time (1977) edited by Laurence J. Peter • 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. • • The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

• The Idea of Christ in the Gospels (1946) • A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. • “Modern Monthly: Volume: 9″ (April 1935); Page: 77-79. Disputed [ ] • Religions are not true or false, but better or worse. • 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. • The earth has music for those who listen. • This statement is commonly associated with Santayana, but no source or attribution can be found in his works or correspondence. *UPDATE: This quote is appropriately attributed to Reginald Vincent Holmes (1955, Fireside Fancies, Edwards Brothers Inc.).

Misattributed [ ] • The working of great administrations is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought. • (1902-1974) (1958) • Many sources mistakenly attribute this quote to Santayana, and even identifies the correct book, without realizing that George Santayana and are two different people Quotes about Santayana [ ] • But what a perfection of rottenness in a philosophy! •, 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 • 'There is no, and Mary is his mother.' Often, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to Santayana himself.

More plausibly attributed to Robert Lowell, as a sardonic description of Santayana's philosophy. • Paul Mariani, 'Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell' (1994), p. 159 • Santayana, indeed, is the of the new naturalism, who discerned the promised land from afar but still wanders himself in the desert realms of being. •, 'The Nature of Naturalism', epilogue to Naturalism and the Human Spirit (1944) • 'In literary reputations come and go so swiftly,' I complained, fatuously. [Santayana's] answer was swift.

'It would be insufferable if they did not.' •, in Palimpsest, A Memoir (1995) External links [ ].

Although schooled in, Santayana was critical of it and made an effort to distance himself from its. Santayana's main philosophical work consists of (1896), his first book-length monograph and perhaps the first major work on written in the United States; five volumes, 1905–6, the high point of his Harvard career; (1923); and (4 vols., 1927–40). Although Santayana was not a in the mold of,,, or, The Life of Reason arguably is the first extended treatment of written.

Like many of the classical pragmatists, and because he was well-versed in, Santayana was committed to. He believed that human, cultural practices, and social institutions have evolved so as to harmonize with the conditions present in their environment. Their value may then be adjudged by the extent to which they facilitate human happiness. The alternate title to The Life of Reason, 'the Phases of Human Progress,' is indicative of this stance.

Santayana was an early adherent of, but also admired the classical of and (of the three authors on whom he wrote in Three Philosophical Poets, Santayana speaks most favorably of Lucretius). He held 's writings in high regard, calling him his 'master and model.' Although an, he held a fairly benign view of religion. Santayana's views on religion are outlined in his books Reason in Religion, The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, and Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. Santayana described himself as an '.' He spent the last decade of his life at the Convent of the Blue Nuns of the Little Company of Mary on the at 6 Via Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome, where he was cared for by the Irish sisters. Man of letters [ ].

Santayana early in his career Santayana's one novel,, is a, centering on the personal growth of its protagonist, Oliver Alden. His Persons and Places is an. These works also contain many of his sharper opinions and. He wrote books and essays on a wide range of subjects, including philosophy of a less technical sort, literary criticism, the history of ideas, politics, human nature, morals, the influence of religion on culture and social psychology, all with considerable wit and humor. While his writings on technical philosophy can be difficult, his other writings are far more accessible and pithy.

He wrote poems and a few plays, and left an ample correspondence, much of it published only since 2000. Like, Santayana observed American culture and character from a foreigner's point of view. Like, his friend and mentor, he wrote philosophy in a literary way. Includes Santayana among, notably in 'Canto LXXXI' and 'Canto XCV'. Santayana is usually considered an American writer, although he declined to become an American citizen, resided in fascist Italy for decades, and said that he was most comfortable, intellectually and aesthetically,.

Awards [ ] • Royal Society of Literature Benson Medal, 1925. • Columbia University Butler Gold Medal, 1945. • Honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin, 1911. Santayana's Reason in Common Sense was published in five volumes between 1905 and 1906; this edition is from 1920. Sonnets And Other Verses. Lucifer: A Theological Tragedy.

Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. A Hermit of Carmel And Other Poems. • 1905–1906., 5 vols. Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe. Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion. Egotism in German Philosophy.

Character and Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America. Little Essays, Drawn From the Writings of George Santayana.

By Logan Pearsall Smith, With the Collaboration of the Author. Dialogues in Limbo • 1927. Platonism and the Spiritual Life.

• 1927–40., 4 vols. The Genteel Tradition at Bay. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy: Five Essays • 1935.. Obiter Scripta: Lectures, Essays and Reviews. And Benjamin Schwartz, eds.

Persons and Places. The Middle Span. The Idea of Christ in the Gospels; or, God in Man: A Critical Essay. Dialogues in Limbo, With Three New Dialogues. Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government. My Host The World Posthumous edited/selected works • 1955. The Letters of George Santayana.

Daniel Cory, ed. Charles Scribner's Sons. (296 letters) • 1956.

Essays in Literary Criticism of George Santayana., ed. The Idler and His Works, and Other Essays. Daniel Cory, ed.

The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays by George Santayana. George Santayana's America: Essays on Literature and Culture.

James Ballowe, ed. Animal Faith and Spiritual Life: Previously Unpublished and Uncollected Writings by George Santayana With Critical Essays on His Thought. John Lachs, ed.

Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy. Richard Colton Lyon, ed. Selected Critical Writings of George Santayana, 2 vols. Norman Henfrey, ed. Physical Order and Moral Liberty: Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana. John and Shirley Lachs, eds. The Complete Poems of George Santayana: A Critical Edition.

Edited, with an introduction, by W. Bucknell University Press. The Birth of Reason and Other Essays. Daniel Cory, ed., with an Introduction by Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr. Columbia Univ.

The Essential Santayana. Selected Writings Edited by the Santayana Edition, Compiled and with an introduction by Martin A. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. The Works of George Santayana Unmodernized, critical editions of George Santayana’s published and unpublished writing. The Works is edited by the Santayana Edition and published by The MIT Press. Persons and Places. Santayana's autobiography, incorporating Persons and Places, 1944; The Middle Span, 1945; and My Host the World, 1953.

• 1988 (1896).. • 1990 (1900). Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. • 1994 (1935).. • The Letters of George Santayana.

Containing over 3,000 of his letters, many discovered posthumously, to more than 350 recipients. Book One, 1868–1909.

Book Two, 1910–1920. Book Three, 1921–1927. Book Four, 1928–1932. Book Five, 1933–1936.

Book Six, 1937–1940. Book Seven, 1941–1947. Book Eight, 1948–1952. George Santayana's Marginalia: A Critical Selection, Books 1 and 2. Compiled by John O. McCormick and edited by Kristine W. • in five books.

• 2011 (1905). Reason in Common Sense. • 2013 (1905). Reason in Society. • 2014 (1905). Reason in Religion.

See also [ ]. • George Santayana, 'Apologia Pro Mente Sua,' in P. Schilpp, The Philosophy of George Santayana, (1940), 603.

• George Santayana (1905) Reason in Common Sense, p. 284, volume 1 of • George Santayana (1922) Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, number 25 •. • Parri, Alice Two Harvard Friends: Charles Loeser and George Santayana • Garrison, Lloyd McKim, An Illustrated History of the Hasty Pudding Club Theatricals, Cambridge, Hasty Pudding Club, 1897. •, ’Phi Beta Kappa website’’, accessed Oct 4, 2009 •. • Lensing, George S. Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth. A Cambridge Alumni Database.

University of Cambridge. • Saatkamp, Herman; Coleman, Martin (1 January 2014). Zalta, Edward N., ed.. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University – via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. • The Letters of George Santayana: Book Eight, 1948–1952 By George Santayana p 8:39 • '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.' George Santayana, 'On My Friendly Critics,' in Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, 1922 (from Rawson's Dictionary of American Quotations via credoreference.com). Accessed August 1, 2008.

• 'Santayana playfully called himself 'a Catholic atheist,' but in spite of the fact that he deliberately immersed himself in the stream of Catholic religious life, he never took the sacraments. He neither literally regarded himself as a Catholic nor did Catholics regard him as a Catholic.' Empiricism, Theoretical Constructs, and God, by Kai Nielsen, The Journal of Religion, Vol.

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• George Santayana; William G. Holzberger (Editor). The Letters of George Santayana, Book Seven, 1941-1947. (MIT Press (MA), Hardcover, 560, 569pp.) (p. Archived from on 2013-09-28. Bertrand Russell’s Ethics. London and New York: Continuum, 2006.

Xiii, 185., p.4 • Lensing, George S. Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth. Archived from on 2013-07-25. Retrieved 2014-01-07. • Saatkamp, Herman, 'George Santayana,' The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = • Religious Naturalism Today, pp.

44–52 • Whitehead, A.N. Process and Reality. An Essay in Cosmology. Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927–1928, Macmillan, New York, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK. • See the sixth paragraph,, by Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal, November 25, 2003, (Archived at ). Retrieved 2016-09-25. Further reading [ ].