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George Santayana Quotes

George Santayana quotes

Spanish Philosopher December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952

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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "Sanity is a madness put to good uses."
Sanity is a madness put to good uses. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "Sanity is madness put to good use."
Sanity is madness put to good use. George Santayana
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile..."
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions;..."
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely..."
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "The Bible is literature, not dogma."
The Bible is literature, not dogma. George Santayana
There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society and the genteel conventions, but hadn't enough intelligence or enough conceit to think themselves transcendentalists or poets, in the style of Thoreau or of Walt Whitman. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory"
History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory George Santayana
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. George Santayana
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. George Santayana
George Santayana quote: "There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink,..."
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. George Santayana

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