George Santayana Quotes

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

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Santayana

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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

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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

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

George Santayana

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Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

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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.

George Santayana

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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana

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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

George Santayana

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