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George Santayana

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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.


— George Santayana


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Habit is stronger than reason.


— George Santayana


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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.


— George Santayana


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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.


— George Santayana


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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.


— George Santayana


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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.


— George Santayana


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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.


— George Santayana


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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.


— George Santayana


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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.


— George Santayana


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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.


— 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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