George Santayana Quotes

471 quotes · Philosopher, Poet

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George Santayana Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Spiritual Love 471 quotes · page 15 of 40

George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Hopeful

“Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.”

Prayer Effort Range

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Courageous

“Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.”

War Passion Ambition

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Angry

“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”

Emotional Weakness

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Melancholic

“The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again”

Doe Remember

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Wise

“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”

Art Interesting Effort

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Wise

“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”

Political Fashion Innovation

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Philosophical

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.”

Needs Historian

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Melancholic

“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”

Life Predicaments

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Wise

“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.”

Different Women Reason

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Philosophical

“Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.”

Men Heaven Ridiculous

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Philosophical

“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”

Dream Knows

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Wise

“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”

Wisdom Words Of Wisdom

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