QUOTES

Quotes by George Santayana

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."
- George Santayana
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- George Santayana
"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
- George Santayana
"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was ..."
- George Santayana
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
- George Santayana
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
- George Santayana
"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
- George Santayana
"The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretendi..."
- George Santayana
"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judg..."
- George Santayana
"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."
- George Santayana
"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."
- George Santayana
"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."
- George Santayana
"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
- George Santayana
"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have ..."
- George Santayana
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
- George Santayana
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."
- George Santayana
"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer."
- George Santayana
"For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."
- George Santayana
"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."
- George Santayana
"I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of per..."
- George Santayana
"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."
- George Santayana
"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
- George Santayana
"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
- George Santayana
"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."
- George Santayana
"Habit is stronger than reason."
- George Santayana
"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
- George Santayana
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
- George Santayana
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."
- George Santayana
"Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it."
- George Santayana
"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with lo..."
- George Santayana
"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image..."
- George Santayana
"To be interested in the changing seasons is... a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
- George Santayana
"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."
- George Santayana
"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the ..."
- George Santayana
"There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader-s hand in the margin, are more interesting th..."
- George Santayana
"Memory... is an internal rumor."
- George Santayana
"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."
- George Santayana
"Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."
- George Santayana
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
- George Santayana
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
- George Santayana
"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."
- George Santayana
"Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers."
- George Santayana
"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
- George Santayana
"The bible is literature, not dogma."
- George Santayana
"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
- George Santayana
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in orde..."
- George Santayana
"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills preju..."
- George Santayana
"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
- George Santayana
"To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, ..."
- George Santayana
"To know your future you must know your past."
- George Santayana
"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
- George Santayana
"There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting th..."
- George Santayana