Wisdom Quotes
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George Santayana Quotes

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

- George Santayana

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

- George Santayana

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

- George Santayana

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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

- George Santayana

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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

- George Santayana

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Sanity is madness put to good uses.

- George Santayana

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Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

- George Santayana

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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

- 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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... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

- George Santayana

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

- George Santayana

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

- George Santayana

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Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

The Life of Reason, 1905-1906

- George Santayana

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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

The Life of Reason, 1905-1906

- George Santayana

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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

- George Santayana

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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Scepticism and Animal Faith, 1923

- George Santayana

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The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

The Life of Reason, 1905-1906

- George Santayana

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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.

Persons and Places: The Middle Span, 1945

- George Santayana

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