History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

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• George Santayana:

  To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

• George Santayana:

  Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

• George Santayana:

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

• George Santayana:

  The Bible is literature, not dogma.

• George Santayana:

  Sanity is madness put to good use.

• George Santayana:

  A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

• George Santayana:

  There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

• George Santayana:

  Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

• George Santayana:

  Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions;

• George Santayana:

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