George Santayana Quotes

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

History, Past, Remember

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

School, Child, Educated

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana

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

Life, Emotional, Others

Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana

Depression, Rage, Thin

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana

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

Art, Dream, Artist

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

Wisdom, Wise, Saying

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

Future, Respect, Past

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana

Life, Happiness, Human

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana

Marriage, Patience, Takes

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

Nature, Love, Mind

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana

Death, Sleep, Done

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

History, Lies, Happened

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana

Friendship, Human, Friends

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana

Dreams, Truth, Dream

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

Country, America, Young

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
George Santayana

Soul, Body, Voice

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
George Santayana

Rather, Pay, Regard

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana

Ignore, Living, Wrong

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana

Confusion, Minds, Order

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

Women, Men, Sex

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana

Education, Great, Experience

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana

Men, Wise, Speak

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 16, 1863

Died: September 26, 1952

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