George Santayana Quotes


72 George Santayana quotes:



"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."
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"Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure."
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"For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
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"The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence"
Author: Santayana Quotes Category: Admiration Quotes
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
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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."
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"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."
Author: Santayana Quotes Category: Patriotism Quotes Soul Quotes
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
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"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."
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"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
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"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
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"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
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"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
Author: Santayana Quotes Category: History Quotes Events Quotes
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Author: Santayana Quotes Category: History Quotes Failure Quotes
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
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"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."
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