George Santayana Quotes

471 quotes · Philosopher, Poet

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George Santayana Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Spiritual Love 471 quotes · page 18 of 40

George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.”

Science Body Progress

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Love

“Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.”

Needs Together Intimacy

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Creative

“Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.”

Real Criticism

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Philosophical

“America is a young country with an old mentality.”

Country America

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Philosophical

“What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .”

Men Art Giving

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Philosophical

“The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.”

Perfect Fate Lines

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Philosophical

“Music is essentially useless, as is life.”

Music Musician

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Philosophical

“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.”

Philosophy Wisdom

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Wise

“The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.”

Suffering Institutions

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Angry

“The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.”

Use Conversation

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Wise

“It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.”

Philosophy Advantage

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Thoughtful

“Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.”

Order Sometimes

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