George Santayana Quotes

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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

  George Santayana

  Country, 4th Of July, Knowledge

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress". Book by George Santayana, Chapter VII: Patriotism, 1905.

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• A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

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• History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

  George Santayana

  Fear, Lying, People

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• To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

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• People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

  George Santayana

  Believe, Volcanoes, People

  George Santayana (2002). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3”, p.138, MIT Press

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• There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

  George Santayana

  Humor, Growth, Mind

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• The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

  George Santayana

  Doe, Remember, Bounds

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• It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

  George Santayana

  Marriage, Patience, Appreciate

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 2, ch. 2

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• The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

  George Santayana

  Life, Laughter, Confused

  George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”

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• There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

  George Santayana

  Stupidity, Meanness, Ideals

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.59, 谷月社

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• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

  George Santayana

  Education, Teacher, Children

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Goal, Effort

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, introduction (1905)

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• Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

  George Santayana

  God, Space, Heaven

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.75, MIT Press

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• For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

  George Santayana

  Sleep, Men, Hair

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• Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

  George Santayana

  Atheism, Life Is, Blindness

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

  George Santayana

  Life, Men, Made

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• The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

  George Santayana

  Men, Laughing, Savages

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  The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

  George Santayana

  Motivational, Perseverance, Courage

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1939 See Calonne 1; Nansen 1; Trollope 3

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• Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Common Sense, Nonsense

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

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• Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

  George Santayana

  Dream, And Love, Waking Life

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• The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

  George Santayana

  Christian, Jesus, Ideas

  "The Idea of Christ in the Gospels". Book by George Santayana, 1946.

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

  George Santayana

  Skepticism, Intellect, Chastity

  "Scepticism and Animal Faith". Book by George Santayana, 1923.

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• To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

  George Santayana

  Religious, Language, Speak

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