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George Santayana Quotes on Life

George Santayana was a Spanish-born American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. This page collects quotes attributed to George Santayana on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

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

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  • Attributed to George Santayana:

    “Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”

  • “Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”

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  • “That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.”

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