Category - George Santayana

Discover the thoughtful and inspirational Quotes of George Santayana, a philosopher and author. Our collection of his most impactful quotes reflects his deep understanding of language, philosophy, and history.
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George Santayana

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

– George Santayana

George Santayana

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

– George Santayana

George Santayana

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

– George Santayana

George Santayana

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.

– George Santayana

George Santayana

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

– George Santayana

George Santayana

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

– George Santayana

George Santayana

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

– George Santayana

George Santayana

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

– George Santayana

George Santayana

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

– George Santayana

George Santayana

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

– George Santayana

George Santayana

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

– George Santayana

George Santayana

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

– George Santayana

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