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- The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. - George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3
- Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
- Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
- Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"
- For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2
- Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4
- Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis"
- America is a young country with an old mentality.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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