Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old George Santayana quotes, George Santayana sayings, and George Santayana proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.George Santayana
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.George Santayana
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.George Santayana
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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.George Santayana
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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.George Santayana
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.George Santayana
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Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.George Santayana
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.George Santayana
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.George Santayana
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Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.George Santayana
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.George Santayana
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Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.George Santayana
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To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.George Santayana
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Consciousness is a born hermit.George Santayana
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It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.George Santayana
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Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.George Santayana
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment. George Santayana
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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.George Santayana
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Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.George Santayana
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.George Santayana
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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.George Santayana
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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.George Santayana
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.George Santayana
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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.George Santayana
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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
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. George Santayana
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In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else.George Santayana
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.George Santayana
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Sanity is madness put to good use.George Santayana
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.George Santayana