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
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“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.”
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“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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