Quotes by Santayana, George

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no plea >>

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instinct >>

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow a >>

Quotations about History and Historians

An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are bro >>

And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with l >>

A land without ruins is a land without memories -- a land without memo >>

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Santayana, George