George Santayana Quotes about Lying

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

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

George Santayana

Fear, Lying, People

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

George Santayana

Lying, Grain Of Salt, Good Humor

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

George Santayana

Confused, Lying, Competition

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

George Santayana

Lying, Hero, Shouting

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

George Santayana

Wisdom, Lying, Men

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

George Santayana

Lying, Expression, Choices

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

George Santayana

Lying, Two, Tragedy

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.78, Indiana University Press