George Santayana Quotes

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
Truth | George Santayana quote

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
Birth | George Santayana quote

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

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana quote

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
George Santayana quote

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
George Santayana quote

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
Music | George Santayana quote

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana quote

Biography

American philosopher