“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana KnowledgePastWiseWisdomRememberRepeatCondemned
“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.” George Santayana EmotionLifeWisdomBuildWeakness]
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.” George Santayana
“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” George Santayana
“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.” George Santayana
“All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.” George Santayana
“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.” George Santayana
“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.” 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
“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.” George Santayana
“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.” George Santayana
“Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.” George Santayana
“Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.” George Santayana
“Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.” George Santayana
