George Santayana Quotes

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

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

George Santayana

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

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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

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Music is essentially useless, as is life.

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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

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