George Santayana

Philosopher

Spain

1863 - 1952

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Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
George Santayana
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
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.
George Santayana
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
George Santayana
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana