George Santayana Quotes

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

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

George Santayana

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America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

George Santayana

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana

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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana

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

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

George Santayana

EducationGreatExperienceIdeasOut

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

George Santayana

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

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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

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

George Santayana

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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

George Santayana

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