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George Santayana Quotes

George Santayana quotes

Spanish Philosopher December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952

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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be. George Santayana
Those were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not made for friendship: common interests are not strong enough, private interests too absorbing. In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that. George Santayana
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
George Santayana quote: "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of..."
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us..."
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as..."
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free..."
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "The highest form of vanity is love of fame."
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. George Santayana
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails,..."
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and... George Santayana
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce... George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind..."
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or..."
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. George Santayana
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. George Santayana

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