George Santayana

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


— George Santayana

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The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ↗


— George Santayana

#masterpieces #nature

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. ↗


— George Santayana

#pay #people #rather #really #regard

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


— George Santayana

#chaos #confusion #minds #name #order

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

#deny #else #ignore #living #monstrous

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ↗


— George Santayana

#disillusionment #wisdom

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


— George Santayana

#eccentricity #graphic #graphic design #heresy #hobbies

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


— George Santayana

#experiment #fails #happiness #lamentable #life

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


— George Santayana

#changing #happier #hopelessly #interested #love

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. ↗


— George Santayana

#emotional #emotional life #life #never #others






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Man of letters

Santayana's one novel The Last Puritan is a bildungsroman—that is a novel that centers on the personal growth of the protagonist. He had saved money and been aided by a legacy from his mother. While his writings on technical philosophy can be difficult his other writings are far more accessible and pithy.

At the age of forty-eight Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently never to return to the United States. ". He said that he stood in philosophy "exactly where [he stood] in daily life.