Top 15 George Santayana Quotes

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

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.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

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

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.

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

Memory... is an internal rumor.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.