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George Santayana Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the spanish philosopher George Santayana on topics like life, mind, world

  • Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.

    — George Santayana on mistakes
    105
  • When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

    — George Santayana on men
    35
  • My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

    — George Santayana on atheism
    26
  • George Santayana quote America is a young country with an old mentality.

    America is a young country with an old mentality.

    — George Santayana
    5
  • Depression is rage spread thin.

    — George Santayana on depression
    19
  • Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.

    — George Santayana on nonsense
    17
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  • The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

    — George Santayana on family
    14
  • George Santayana quote Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

    Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

    — George Santayana
    16
  • Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

    — George Santayana on dignity
    13
  • Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

    — George Santayana on chaos
    11
  • The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.

    — George Santayana on space
    10
  • George Santayana quote Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

    Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

    — George Santayana
    5
  • The world is a perpetual caricature of itself;

    at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

    — George Santayana on caricature
    10
  • Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

    — George Santayana on potential
    9
  • Habit is stronger than reason.

    — George Santayana on habits
    9
  • About George Santayana

    Name George Santayana
    Quotes 141 quotations
    Nationality Spanish
    Profession Philosopher
    Birthday December 16, 1863
    About Philosopher, poet, literary and cultural critic, George Santayana is a principal figure in Classical American Philosophy. His naturalism and emphasis on creative imagination were harbingers of important intellectual turns on both sides of the Atlantic.
    Top topics life, mind, world, love, experience
  • Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

    — George Santayana on wisdom
    8
  • Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

    — George Santayana on profanity
    8
  • Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

    — George Santayana on happiness
    7
  • There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

    — George Santayana on sympathy
    7
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  • Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

    — George Santayana on character
    6
  • It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

    — George Santayana on saint
    5
  • The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

    — George Santayana on education
    5
  • Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

    — George Santayana on conscience
    5
  • Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

    — George Santayana on sacrifice
    5
  • The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

    — George Santayana on conversation
    5
  • Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

    — George Santayana on friends
    4
  • Sanity is madness put to good use.

    — George Santayana on madness
    4
  • The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

    — George Santayana on emotions
    4
  • Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

    — George Santayana on sanity
    4
  • Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

    — George Santayana on pleasure
    4
  • The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

    — George Santayana on soul
    4
  • America is a young country with an old mentality.

    — George Santayana on america
    4
  • To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

    — George Santayana on anger
    3
  • Advertising is the modern substitute for argument;

    its function is to make the worse appear the better.

    — George Santayana on advertising
    3
  • Happiness is the only sanction of life;

    where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

    — George Santayana on existence
    3
  • One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

    — George Santayana on friendship
    3
  • Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

    — George Santayana on ego
    3
  • If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

    — George Santayana on pain
    3
  • Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

    — George Santayana on design
    3
  • Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

    — George Santayana on inferiority
    3
  • Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

    — George Santayana on knowledge
    3
  • History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

    — George Santayana on history
    3
  • For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

    — George Santayana on death
    3
  • 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 on future
    2
  • The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

    — George Santayana on art
    2
  • Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

    — George Santayana on beauty
    2
  • Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

    — George Santayana on dignity
    2
  • That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

    — George Santayana on fear
    2
  • A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

    — George Santayana on patriotism
    2
  • Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

    — George Santayana on soul
    2
  • Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

    — George Santayana on doubt
    2
  • Happiness is the only sanction of life;

    where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

    — George Santayana on happiness
    2
  • The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

    — George Santayana on doubt
    2
  • Related Topics

    • mistakes
    • repeat
    • learn
    • doomed
    • history
    • men
    • women
    • agree
    • conclusions
    • reasons
    • atheism
    • denies
    • fashioned
    • gods
    • human
    • image
    • interests
    • piety
    • servants
    • spinoza
    • true
    • universe
    • depression
    • rage
    • spread
    • thin
    • nonsense
    • good
    • common
    • sense
    • limited
    • family
    • masterpieces
    • dignity
    • understand

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