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Quotes by George Santayana

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on ret ... Read Full Quote
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of ... Read Full Quote
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests. ... Read Full Quote
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ... Read Full Quote
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virt ... Read Full Quote
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to rep ... Read Full Quote
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less w ... Read Full Quote
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so lim ... Read Full Quote
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happi ... Read Full Quote
All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to c ... Read Full Quote
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the ... Read Full Quote
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old ... Read Full Quote
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specifi ... Read Full Quote
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually ... Read Full Quote
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the ... Read Full Quote
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an ... Read Full Quote
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you ... Read Full Quote
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the ... Read Full Quote
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes f ... Read Full Quote
The brute necessity of believing something so long as l ... Read Full Quote
Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his l ... Read Full Quote
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a c ... Read Full Quote
... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essenc ... Read Full Quote
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its v ... Read Full Quote
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is ... Read Full Quote
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and ... Read Full Quote
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you neve ... Read Full Quote
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures ... Read Full Quote
Sanity is a madness put to good use. ... Read Full Quote
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one ... Read Full Quote
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier s ... Read Full Quote
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament. ... Read Full Quote
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which i ... Read Full Quote
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his ... Read Full Quote
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and ... Read Full Quote
Music is essentially useless, as life is. ... Read Full Quote
One's friends are that part of the human race with whic ... Read Full Quote
Friends need not agree in everything or go always toget ... Read Full Quote
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a ... Read Full Quote
Matters of religion should never be matters of controve ... Read Full Quote
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understan ... Read Full Quote
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition ... Read Full Quote
America is a young country with an old mentality. ... Read Full Quote
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you s ... Read Full Quote
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its f ... Read Full Quote
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the w ... Read Full Quote
Science is nothing but developed perception, interprete ... Read Full Quote
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished t ... Read Full Quote
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed int ... Read Full Quote
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. ... Read Full Quote
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is ... Read Full Quote
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity ... Read Full Quote
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have ... Read Full Quote
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actua ... Read Full Quote
Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more ... Read Full Quote
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness ... Read Full Quote
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it ... Read Full Quote
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on ret ... Read Full Quote
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn ... Read Full Quote
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the ... Read Full Quote