George Santayana Quotes

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

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

  George Santayana

  Believe, Volcanoes, People

  George Santayana (2002). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3”, p.138, MIT Press

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• A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

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

  George Santayana

  Fear, Lying, People

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• All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

  George Santayana

  Language, Poet, Rhetorical

  George Santayana (1955). “Letters”

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

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

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• The Bible is literature, not dogma.

  George Santayana

  Bible, Religious, Hygiene

  Benedictus de Spinoza, George Santayana (1910). “Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione".”

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• There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

  George Santayana

  Humor, Growth, Mind

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• America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

  George Santayana

  Opportunity, America, Influence

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.423, MIT Press

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

  George Santayana

  Sleep, Men, Hair

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

  George Santayana

  Dream, Dreamer, Knows

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

  George Santayana

  Christian, Jesus, Ideas

  "The Idea of Christ in the Gospels". Book by George Santayana, 1946.

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• The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

  George Santayana

  Doe, Remember, Bounds

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• The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

  George Santayana

  Life, Laughter, Confused

  George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”

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• He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

  George Santayana

  Believe, Thinking, Vision

  George Santayana (2013). “Scepticism and Animal Faith”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

  George Santayana

  Education, Teacher, Children

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

  George Santayana

  Atheism, Life Is, Blindness

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Goal, Effort

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, introduction (1905)

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• Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

  George Santayana

  God, Space, Heaven

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.75, MIT Press

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• The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

  George Santayana

  Men, Laughing, Savages

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

  George Santayana

  Education, Ideas, Difficulty

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.9, Рипол Классик

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

  George Santayana

  Skepticism, Intellect, Chastity

  "Scepticism and Animal Faith". Book by George Santayana, 1923.

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• The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, World

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

  George Santayana

  Marriage, Patience, Appreciate

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 2, ch. 2

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

  George Santayana

  Religion, Advertising, Argument

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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