Quotes by George Santayana

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

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