George Santayana Quotes

Philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
– George Santayana

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The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
– George Santayana

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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
– George Santayana

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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
– George Santayana

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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
– George Santayana

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America is a young country with an old mentality.
– George Santayana

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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
– George Santayana

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Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.
– George Santayana

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast: it is a predicament.
– George Santayana

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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
– George Santayana

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

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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it.
– George Santayana

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

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To be interested in the changing seasons is … a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
– George Santayana

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

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Habit is stronger than reason.
– George Santayana

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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
– George Santayana

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The man who is not permitted to own is owned.
– George Santayana

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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
– George Santayana

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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
– George Santayana

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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
– George Santayana

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