23+ Quotes by George Santayana

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

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

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

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

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."

"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."

"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."

"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."

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

"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."

"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."

"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."