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“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”
George Santayana
“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
George Santayana
“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
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
“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”
George Santayana
“Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”
George Santayana
“In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.”
George Santayana
“Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.”
George Santayana
“Sanity is madness put to good use.”
George Santayana
“Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.”
George Santayana
“The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.”
George Santayana
“A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”
George Santayana
“Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.”
George Santayana
“The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.”
George Santayana
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
George Santayana
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
George Santayana
“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”
George Santayana
“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”
George Santayana
“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.”
George Santayana
“Habit is stronger than reason.”
George Santayana
“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”
George Santayana
“The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.”
George Santayana
“To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.”
George Santayana
“Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.”
George Santayana
“For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.”
George Santayana
“Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.”
George Santayana
“The Bible is literature, not dogma.”
George Santayana
“The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.”
George Santayana
