George Santayana Quotes

471 quotes · Philosopher, Poet

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George Santayana Quotes

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Wise

“People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.”

People Opinion Convinced

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.”

Mean Culture Profound

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Philosophical

“Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.”

Ideas Imagination Drama

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Wise

“I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.”

Grind My Thoughts

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Wise

“There is no dunce like a mature dunce.”

Stupidity Mature

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Philosophical

“Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.”

May Light Jewels

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Hopeful

“I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.”

Believe Passion Happiness

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Grateful

“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”

Writing Adventure Young Friends

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Funny

“We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.”

Support Forgiving Vanity

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Philosophical

“Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.”

Ideas Philosophy Detectives

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Philosophical

“Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.”

Men Dying Funeral

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Hopeful

“Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.”

Men Children Possession

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