George Santayana's Quotes

George Santayana's Quotes 106

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have...

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts...

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less...

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them...

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to...

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an...

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we...

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end,...

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer...

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who...

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence...

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we...

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of...

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