Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.
George Santayana Quotes
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. ~George Santayana
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An Artist may visit museum but only a pedant can live there.
– Santayana
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
~Santayana
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Art is a delayed echo.
– Santayana
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(Self)assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
~George Santayana
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By nature’s kindly disposition, most questions which it is beyond man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.
~ Santayana
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“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
~George Santayana
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
– Santayana
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
~George Santayana
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
~George Santayana
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Man is full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
– Santayana
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
– Santayana
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The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
– George Santayana
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The earth has music for those who listen.
– George Santayana