George Santayana
George Santayana (1863 - 1952), full name Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, is known in English as George Santayana, was a Spanish-US philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, though he had retained a valid Spanish Passport. It is true that he was born in Spain, and in this sense is a born Spanish, but raised and educated in the United States from the age of eight, and he identified himself as American and US citizen.Wisdom & Quotes
- My atheism ... is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
- The Bible is literature, not dogma.
- Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
- It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
- Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
- Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
- The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
- To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.
- Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
- Our dignity is not in what we do but what we understand. The whole world is doing things.
- Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
- The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence.
- Words are weapons, and it is dangerous ... to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
Henry Ford