George Santayana's Quotes

George Santayana's Quotes 55

Friends are generally of the same sex for when men and women agree it is...

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

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

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

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

The truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have...

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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy easier in fact than to...

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

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

Wealth religion military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier a dangerous quality in the...

Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less...

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

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's...

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to...

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them...

Music is essentially useless as is life.

Language is like money without which specific relative values may well exist...

When men and women agree it is only in their conclusions their reasons are...

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

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation not an...

Knowledge is not eating and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we...

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

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