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George Santayana

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

-George Santayana

age

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

-George Santayana

alone

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

-George Santayana

art

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

-George Santayana

art

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

-George Santayana

art

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

-George Santayana

art

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

-George Santayana

beauty

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.

-George Santayana

best

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

-George Santayana

change

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

-George Santayana

courage

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

-George Santayana

death

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

-George Santayana

death

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

-George Santayana

design

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

-George Santayana

dreams

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

-George Santayana

education

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

-George Santayana

experience

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

-George Santayana

experience

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

-George Santayana

experience

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

-George Santayana

experience

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

-George Santayana

experience

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

-George Santayana

faith

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

-George Santayana

family

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

-George Santayana

fear

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

-George Santayana

friendship

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

-George Santayana

friendship

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.

-George Santayana

future

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

-George Santayana

great

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.

-George Santayana

happiness

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

-George Santayana

happiness

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

-George Santayana

happiness

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

-George Santayana

happiness

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

-George Santayana

history

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

-George Santayana

history

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

-George Santayana

hope

George Santayana

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

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

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

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

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

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.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

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

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

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

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

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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

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

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

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

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

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.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

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

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

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