George Santayana Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Santayana
George Santayana Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread.
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread.
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.
So in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
By obedience and self-control come to your full stature; be in fact what you are in possibility; satisfy
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
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.
He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)
The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.