George Santayana Quotes About Knowledge

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  • When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

    George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.506, 谷月社
  • Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

    George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.95, MIT Press
  • A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

    "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress". Book by George Santayana, Chapter VII: Patriotism, 1905.
  • Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

    "Persons and Places: My host the world".
  • Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

    George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.221, Library of Alexandria
  • Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

  • Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

    George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”
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