Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

- George Santayana

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

- George Santayana

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

- George Santayana

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

- George Santayana

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

- George Santayana

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

- George Santayana

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanl…

- George Santayana

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a mic…

- George Santayana

Man's most serious activity is play.

- George Santayana