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12/16/10

GEORGE SANTAYANA Quotes


"A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within." ~George Santayana

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world." ~George Santayana

"Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience at the union of life and peace." ~George Santayana

"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said." ~George Santayana

"Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine." ~George Santayana

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." ~George Santayana

"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is." ~George Santayana

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots." ~George Santayana 

“Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.” ~George Santayana

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience." ~George Santayana

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there." ~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

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness." ~George Santayana

"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited." ~George Santayana

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human." ~George Santayana

"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand." ~George Santayana

"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality." ~George Santayana

"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself." ~George Santayana

"Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~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." ~George Santayana
 

"Sanity is a madness put to good use." ~George Santayana

"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer." ~George Santayana

"The earth has music for those who listen." ~George Santayana

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." ~George Santayana

"The highest form of vanity is love of fame." ~George Santayana

"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise." ~George Santayana 

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." ~George Santayana

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." ~George Santayana

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~George Santayana

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." ~George Santayana

"To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful." ~George Santayana

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