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The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

Book by George Santayana · 10 quotes · Reason, Humans, Ideals

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The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two Quotes

“What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .”

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”

“It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.”

“Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.”