The family is one of nature's masterpieces.The Life of Reason, Reason in Society, ch. 2 The Family (1905-06)
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George Santayana was a Spanish-American philosopher, poet, and novelist, born on December 16, 1863, in Madrid, Spain. He is best known for his works on aesthetics, philosophy of religion, and his contributions to the fields of metaphysics and epistemology, as well as for his famous aphorism, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Santayana's influential writings, including "The Sense of Beauty" and "The Life of Reason," reflect his belief in the importance of culture and the human experience. He died on September 26, 1952, in Rome, Italy.
1863–1952·lived 88 years
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.The Life of Reason, Reason in Society, ch. 2 The Family (1905-06)
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.The Life of Reason, Vol. 1, p. 284, 1905
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.The Sense of Beauty, p. 125, 1896
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