People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes th…

George Santayana
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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them. ✨ George Santayana (2002). The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3, p.138, MIT Press
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is n … ▶
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, V … ▶
Sanity is madness put to good use. ✨ George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings, p.269, Indiana University Press
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock … ▶
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad. ✨ George Santayana (1936). The … ▶

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them. ✨ George Santayana (2002). The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3, p.138, MIT Press

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