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George Santayana

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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.


— George Santayana


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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.


— George Santayana


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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


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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.


— George Santayana


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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.


— George Santayana


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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.


— George Santayana


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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.


— George Santayana


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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.


— George Santayana


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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.


— George Santayana


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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.


— George Santayana


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About George Santayana

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Did you know about George Santayana?

Man of letters

Santayana's one novel The Last Puritan is a bildungsroman—that is a novel that centers on the personal growth of the protagonist. He had saved money and been aided by a legacy from his mother. While his writings on technical philosophy can be difficult his other writings are far more accessible and pithy.

At the age of forty-eight Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently never to return to the United States. ". He said that he stood in philosophy "exactly where [he stood] in daily life.

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