Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana History Copy Share Image
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. — George Santayana Emotional Copy Share Image
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. — George Santayana Cruel Copy Share Image
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana Feet Copy Share Image
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. — George Santayana Shrapnel Copy Share Image
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. — George Santayana America Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. — George Santayana Comedy Copy Share Image
“A good citizen must follow the movement of public affairs, so as to cast his vote intelligently, and know whether the party… — George Santayana Good citizen Copy Share Image
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. — George Santayana Convinced Copy Share Image
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. — George Santayana Charter Copy Share Image
“The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the… — George Santayana Idealism Copy Share Image
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. — George Santayana Aging Copy Share Image
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. — George Santayana Argument Copy Share Image
In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that. — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals… — George Santayana Harmony Copy Share Image
The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are… — George Santayana Calling Copy Share Image
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort… — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's… — George Santayana Happiness Copy Share Image
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying… — George Santayana Destiny Copy Share Image
O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Blast Copy Share Image
It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed… — George Santayana Adventurer Copy Share Image
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. — George Santayana Friend Copy Share Image
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. — George Santayana Insanity Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.” — George Santayana Fanaticism Copy Share Image
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. — George Santayana Bible Copy Share Image
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. — George Santayana Communication Copy Share Image
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. — George Santayana Aim Copy Share Image
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. — George Santayana Inspirational Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it. — George Santayana Change Copy Share Image
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. — George Santayana Foe Copy Share Image
“Criticism surprises the soul in the arms of convention.” — George Santayana Convention Copy Share Image
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs. — George Santayana Affair Copy Share Image
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. — George Santayana Barbarism Copy Share Image
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. — George Santayana Dignity Copy Share Image
