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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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
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
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
George Santayana
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
George Santayana
The world is not respectable it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana
Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
George Santayana
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
George Santayana
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
George Santayana
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
George Santayana
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
George Santayana
The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
George Santayana
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
George Santayana
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
George Santayana
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
George Santayana
Beware of long arguments and long beards.
George Santayana
Man is a fighting animal his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
George Santayana
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
George Santayana
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
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
