George Santayana Quotes
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
Citations
Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Or the Phases of Human Progress, Vol. 2, Reason in Society. C. Scribner's Sons, 1905, p. 82.
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Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Originally from Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the US from the age of eight and identified himself as an American, although he always retained a valid Spanish passport. At the age of 48, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently.