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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• Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

  George Santayana

  Vigilance, Eternal, Eternal Vigilance

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.537, Indiana University Press

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

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

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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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• 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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• Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

  George Santayana

  Progress, Quality, Speak

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.7, The Floating Press

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

  George Santayana

  Doe, Remember, Bounds

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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 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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• Habit is stronger than reason.

  George Santayana

  Smoking, Stronger, Opinion

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana: Interpretations of the poetry and religion. Hamlet. Shelley. Dickens. Tragic philosophy”

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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

  Atheist, Men, Insightful

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "On My Friendly Critics" (1922)

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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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• Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Words Of Wisdom, Disillusionment

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• We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

  George Santayana

  Future, Past, Welcome

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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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• Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  George Santayana

  Military, War, Philosophical

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• It is wisdom to believe the heart.

  George Santayana

  Believe, Heart

  George Santayana (1979). “The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition”, Associated Univ Pr

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• The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

  George Santayana

  Graduation, Wisdom, Diversity

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

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• Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

  George Santayana

  Equilibrium, Idiocy, Universe

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Simple Life

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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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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• Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Grain Of Salt, Good Humor

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• The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

  George Santayana

  Reality, Class, Two

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

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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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