George Santayana

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"There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books."	Philosophy
"Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself."	Wisdom
"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."	Quotations
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."	Patriotism
"Sanity is madness put to good uses."	Economics, Sanity
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."	Economics, History
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."	Success, Learning
"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."	Science
"My atheism is true to the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their image, to be servants of their human interests."	Fear
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."	Family
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots."	Philosophy
"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."	God, Character
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."	Art
"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."	Economics, School
"Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions."	Love, Conformity
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."	Fear
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots."	Wisdom
"Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid."	Philosophy
"There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books."	Wisdom
"Art is delayed echo."	Art
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