The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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Quotes by George Santayana
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
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.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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