George Santayana Quotes


George Santayana

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

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

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

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

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

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

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

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

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other`s looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited

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

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren`t there.






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