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George Santayana Quotes: 9

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

  • The earth has music for those who listen.

  • 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.

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

  • One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  • My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

    Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies

  • To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

  • Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

  • love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.