George Santayana

Quote link. Other quotes about: worse: "Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong living soul: "All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise: "Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world man country: "A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art man past: "A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mental old men young country: "America is a young country with an old mentality."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art world: "An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
Quote link.: "An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness human life: "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."
Quote link.: "Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old friend man understand: "Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him."
Quote link.: "Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human peace religion soul: "Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature: "... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."
Quote link.: "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old sin: "For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason men women: "Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend people friends mind: "Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend need friends: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first love: "Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness life: "Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe human ideas fact: "I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human truth nature love: "In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral."
Quote link.: "Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think devil: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness: "Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."
Quote link.: "Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human never religion love: "Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Music is essentially useless, as life is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul: "Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art: "Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human friend friends: "One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
Quote link. Other quotes about: integrity: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand: "Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand."
Quote link. Other quotes about: past change: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience first nothing life children past change mind child: "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 barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "Sanity is a madness put to good use."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art nothing: "Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness first: "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness."
Quote link.: "Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something life belief: "The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend world woman: "The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death: "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death life: "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul: "The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth love: "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something wise mind: "The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old man young: "The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."
Quote link. Other quotes about: past: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Quote link.: "Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality."
Quote link. Other quotes about: religion: "To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america education: "To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope love mind: "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
Quote link. Other quotes about: deep: "To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old never young: "When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out."

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