Famous Quotes

Quotes by George Santayana

• The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
• The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
• The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
• The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
• The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
• The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
• Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
• To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
• 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.
• Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
• When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.
• Wisdom comes by disillusionment.