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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana

A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising ...

George Santayana

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

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 ...

George Santayana

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

George Santayana

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

George Santayana

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

George Santayana

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

George Santayana

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

George Santayana

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul ...

George Santayana

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul ...

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old - Fashioned.

George Santayana

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the ...

George Santayana

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the ...

George Santayana

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

George Santayana

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

George Santayana

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of ...

George Santayana

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

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 suppressed ...

George Santayana

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

George Santayana

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

George Santayana

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are ...

George Santayana

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are ...

George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

George Santayana

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

George Santayana

Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

George Santayana

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no ...

George Santayana

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no ...

George Santayana

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

George Santayana

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in ...

George Santayana

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in ...

George Santayana

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

George Santayana

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

George Santayana

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

George Santayana

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

George Santayana

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in ...

George Santayana

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

George Santayana

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with ...

George Santayana

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of ...

George Santayana

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

George Santayana

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

George Santayana

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

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

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

George Santayana

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the ...

George Santayana

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