137 Quotations by George Santayana
- 121. There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
- 122. There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
- 123. There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
- 124. Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- 125. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- 126. Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
- 127. To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
- 128. To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to ...
- 129. To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a ...
- 130. To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crim ...
- 131. To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blo ...
- 132. Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
- 133. Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
- 134. When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
- 135. Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the h ...
- 136. Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they ...
- 137. Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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