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George Santayana Quotes

George Santayana quotes about life

Spanish Philosopher December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952

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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
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
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
George Santayana quote: "Music is essentially useless, as is life."
Music is essentially useless, as is life. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and..."
The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "That life is worth living is the most necessary of..."
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself."
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament."
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. George Santayana

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