The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
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
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
George Santayana
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
George Santayana
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
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
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
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