George Santayana
George Santayana was a Spanish and U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Born in Spain, he moved to the United States at the age of eight.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- San Bernardo street
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityHarvard CollegeBoston Latin SchoolHumboldt-Universität zu BerlinKing's College
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be."
"All his life he jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg."
"... I once shook hands with Longfellow at a garden party in 1881; and I often saw Dr. Holmes, who was our neighbor in Beacon Street: but Emerson I never saw."
"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
"They are condemned, Dante tells us, to no other penalty than to live in desire without hope, a fate appropriate to noble souls with a clear vision of life."
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Timeline
1863
Born
Birth1952
Died
Death
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