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Famous George Santayana Quotes
“Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.”
“Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.”
“Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.”
“A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.”
“Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.”
“Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.”
“Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.”
“The living have never shown me how to live.”
“To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.”
“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.”
“Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.”
“We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.”
“Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.”
“All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.”
“My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.”
“The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”
“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.”
“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”
“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”