George Santayana
Spanish - American philosopher
Lived from: 1863 - 1952
Category: Philosophers Country: 
United States
Born: 2 october 1863 Died: 16 september 1952
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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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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
The Life of Reason, Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense (1905)― George Santayana -
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but not hurried.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
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Truth is a dream, unless my dream is true.
Sonnet V― George Santayana -
Variation is a consequence of freedom, and the slight but radical diversity of souls in turn makes freedom requisite.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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