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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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More quotes by George Santayana
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
George Santayana
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
George Santayana
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
George Santayana
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
George Santayana
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
George Santayana
Man's most serious activity is play.
George Santayana
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
George Santayana
Fear first created the gods.
George Santayana
Columbus gave the world another world.
George Santayana
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
George Santayana
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
George Santayana
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
George Santayana
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
George Santayana
In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
George Santayana
Docility is the observable half of reason.
George Santayana
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
George Santayana
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
George Santayana
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
George Santayana
