Quote #14

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

More from George Santayana

  1. That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
  2. Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no directi…
  3. Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
  4. The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
  5. Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely le…
  6. The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially d…
  7. Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
  8. To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

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