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There are 94 quotes for the author George Santayana

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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

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

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content.

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

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.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

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

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

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

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

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.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

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