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George Santayana Quotes

Biography: George Santayana is known for his contributions to philosophy, literat... more Biography: George Santayana is known for his contributions to philosophy, literature, and criticism. He was a Spanish-American philosopher, poet, essayist, and novelist. Santayana was influential in various fields, particularly known for his work on aesthetics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. less

"Experience seems to most of us, for instance, to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."

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

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"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

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

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"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."

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"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

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"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different"

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"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say"

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"Sanity is a madness put to good uses"

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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child"

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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval"

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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots"

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"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness"

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"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer"

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"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds"

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