George Santayana Quotes

Spanish - Philosopher | December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

George Santayana

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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

George Santayana

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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

George Santayana

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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

George Santayana

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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

George Santayana

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

George Santayana

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