574 Quotes by George Santayana

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat it.

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.