George Santayana Quotes & Quotations

George Santayana Quotes

» Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

» The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

» It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

» Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

» Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

» To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

» America is a young country with an old mentality.

» It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

» The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

» The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

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