Best Quotes by George Santayana (Top 10)

  1. Sanity is madness put to good use.
  2. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
  3. 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.
  4. To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
  5. A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
  6. 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.
  7. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
  8. 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.
  9. Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
  10. The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

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