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"44 George Santayana Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 16 December 1863. Died: 26 September 1952 | Philosopher | Poet |

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

Repeat Remember Past Condemned
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Condemned Past Remember Repeat
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Country Eyes Feet His
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Learn Mind Something Wisest
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Intelligence Quickness Seeing Things
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Because Consistent Easier Fact
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Believe Between Dualism Facts
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Actual Artist Consenting Dream
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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.
Changing Happier Hopelessly Interested
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Difficulty Education Experience Get
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friends Human Human Race Part
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

About Events Happened History
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Controlled Dreadful Geography Me
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Any Chaos Confusion Minds
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Almost Balance Every Less
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Sanity is madness put to good use.

Good Madness Put Sanity
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Child Educated Only School
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Birth Cure Death Enjoy
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Conclusions Draw Experience Lead
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Almost Always Another Friends
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

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

Courage Dignity Grace His
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Disillusionment Wisdom Comes By
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Decide Fools Greece Men
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

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

Cruel Free Loved Makes
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Feast Life Predicament Spectacle
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Fool Laugh Man Older
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Dead End Only Seen
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Before Contradict Endeavor Fair
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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Death Done Duty His
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Family Of Masterpieces Nature
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

Body Function Instrument Mind
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Always Ground Pleasant Something
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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.

Accepted Been Excited Fugitive
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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Agree Always Conclusions Different
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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.

Destiny Each Enabling Help
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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Act Always Another Create
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

Bible Inspiration Source Those
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Basis Character Happiness Sanction
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America is a young country with an old mentality.

America Country Mentality Old
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Art Effort Eternal Existence
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Destroy Diseases Him Instincts
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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

About Emotion End Much
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George Santayana Quotes & Sayings