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Quotations By George Santayana


Emotion
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

Experience
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Faith
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine
By which alone the mortal heart is led
Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Family
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Friendship
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. -- George Santayana

Happiness
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.

History
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Religion
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. -- George Santayana

Wisdom
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. -- George Santayana