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Danh ngôn của George Santayana (Sứ mệnh: 9)

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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 humanly possible.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.