Quotes by George Santayana

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

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

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”

“The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.”

“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.”