Best George Santayana Quotations
- The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. Close
- Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. Arsenal
- It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. Advantage
- The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. Any
- Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. Chastity
- The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy… Aim
- Man is as full of potential as he is of importance. Full
- There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with. Funny
- 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… All
- The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon. Forgiveness
- People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. Convinced
- It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. Brain
- If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. All
- ...so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and… Entirely
- Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. Charter
- The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a… Carelessness
- Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. Accidents
- A simple life is its own reward. Life
- Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we… Add
- Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. Calls
- Man is not made to understand life, but to live it. Inspirational
- Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous. Conceived
- Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts… Adopted
- What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. Accident
- The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again Bound
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