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Those who cannot remember the...

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

George Santayana 613 quotes

Wisdom lies in taking everyth...

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

George Santayana 613 quotes

In endowing us with memory, n...

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.

George Santayana 613 quotes

The best men in all ages keep...

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

George Santayana 613 quotes

Perhaps the universe is nothi...

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

George Santayana 613 quotes

There is no cure for birth an...

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Everything in nature is lyric...

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Advertising is the modern sub...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

George Santayana 613 quotes

There is nothing to which men...

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

George Santayana 613 quotes

The aim of life is some way o...

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

George Santayana 613 quotes

We need sometimes to escape i...

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Miracles are propitious accid...

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

George Santayana 613 quotes

The world is not respectable;...

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Culture is on the horns of th...

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

George Santayana 613 quotes

It is characteristic of spont...

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.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Christianity persecuted, tort...

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Progress, far from consisting...

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.

George Santayana 613 quotes

What religion a man shall hav...

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

George Santayana 613 quotes

To be happy you must have tak...

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.

George Santayana 613 quotes

The working of great institut...

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

George Santayana 613 quotes

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