“The living have never shown me how to live.”

— George Santayana, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922), "On My Friendly Critics"

About George Santayana

1863 – 1952

Spanish-American philosopher and poet, author of "The Life of Reason".

“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”

“Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.”

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

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.”

“Life is our dictionary.”

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”