George Santayana quotes

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
Only the dead have seen the end of the war. (George Santayana)
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
George Santayana
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George Santayana
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. (George Santayana)
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
George Santayana
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana