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George Santayana

Read through the most famous quotes from George Santayana




Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.


— George Santayana


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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.


— George Santayana


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The Bible is literature, not dogma.


— George Santayana


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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.


— George Santayana


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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.


— George Santayana


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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.


— George Santayana


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


— George Santayana


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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


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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.


— George Santayana


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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.


— George Santayana


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About George Santayana

George Santayana Quotes




Did you know about George Santayana?

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.

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