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A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
By George Santayana
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
By George Santayana
... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
By George Santayana
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
By George Santayana
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
By George Santayana
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
By George Santayana
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
By George Santayana
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
By George Santayana
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.
By George Santayana
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
By George Santayana
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
By George Santayana
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
By George Santayana
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
By George Santayana
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
By George Santayana
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
By George Santayana
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
By George Santayana