George Santayana Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.”
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“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.”
-- George SantayanaSource : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1939 See Calonne 1; Nansen 1; Trollope 3
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“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
-- George SantayanaSource : George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”
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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”
-- George SantayanaSource : George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.135, MIT Press
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“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
-- George SantayanaSource : Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
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“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
-- George SantayanaSource : Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)
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“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
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“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
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“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
-- George SantayanaSource : George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.221, Library of Alexandria
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“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”
-- George SantayanaSource : George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.19, Library of Alexandria
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“The earth has music for those who listen.”
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“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
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“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
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“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.”
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“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.”
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“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
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“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.”
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“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”
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“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
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“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”
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“All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.”
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“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”
-- George Santayana#Wisdom Quotes #Words Of Wisdom Quotes #Disillusionment Quotes
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“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.”
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“It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.”
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“Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.”
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“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”
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“Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.”
-- George Santayana
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