George Santayana Quotes
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The earth has music for those who listen.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out, and minutely articulated.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Habit is stronger than reason.
