George Santayana
Spanish - American philosopher
Lived from: 1863 - 1952
Category: Philosophers Country: 
United States
Born: 2 october 1863 Died: 16 september 1952
Quotes 21 till 40 of 104.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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I agree that the last years of life are the best, if one is a philosopher.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
― George Santayana
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