George Santayana Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

46 Famous Quotes by George Santayana
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
History Quotes
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.”
Friendship Quotes
“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
Friendship Quotes
“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes
“Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.”
Conscience Quotes
“Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.”
Death / immortality Quotes
“Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.”
Dignity Quotes
“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”
Fame Quotes
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
Family Quotes
“Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.”
Humanity Quotes
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
Life Quotes
“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
Nature Quotes
“A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”
Patriotism Quotes
“The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.”
Pride Quotes
“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”
Question Quotes
“The Bible is literature, not dogma.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.”
Self-knowledge Quotes
“Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.”
Skepticism Quotes
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.”
Truth Quotes
“Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.”
Tyranny Quotes
“One real world is enough.”
World Quotes