George Santayana Quotes

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

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."

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

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

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

"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."

"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."

"Sanity is madness put to good use."

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."

"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."

"Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament."

"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."

"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."

"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."

"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."

"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."

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

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

"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

"Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."

"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

"The highest form of vanity is love of fame."

"Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world."

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."