The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Wisdom
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Quotes by George Santayana
Explore 37 sourced quotes by George Santayana. Discover famous, inspirational and timeless words with source information.
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Wisdom
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.
Hope
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Wisdom
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Love
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Wisdom
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Education
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.
Life
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
Wisdom
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Wisdom
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.
Happiness
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
Wisdom
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Wisdom
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Hope
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Wisdom
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Wisdom
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
Success
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Wisdom
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
Life
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Happiness
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Wisdom
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Wisdom
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