Quotes by George Santayana

George Santayana

George Santayana

Spanish - American philosopher

Lived from: 1863 - 1952

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 2 october 1863 Died: 16 september 1952

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  • Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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  • Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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  • Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
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  • Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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  • Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
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  • Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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  • Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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  • Nature is material, but not materialistic; it issues in life, and breeds all sorts of warm passions and idle beauties.
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  • Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
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  • Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
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  • Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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  • Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
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  • Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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  • Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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  • People never believe in volcanous until the lava actually overtakes them.
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  • Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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  • Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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  • Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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  • Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
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  • Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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