George Santayana Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old George Santayana quotes, George Santayana sayings, and George Santayana proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. George Santayana
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. George Santayana
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. George Santayana
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. George Santayana
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. George Santayana
America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. George Santayana
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. George Santayana
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. George Santayana
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. George Santayana
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. George Santayana
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. George Santayana
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. George Santayana
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana
The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive. George Santayana
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. George Santayana
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. George Santayana
Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything. George Santayana
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. George Santayana
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. George Santayana
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana
Beware of long arguments and long beards. George Santayana
Man's most serious activity is play. George Santayana
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. George Santayana
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. George Santayana
Sanity is a madness put to good uses. George Santayana