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Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet.
Habit is stronger than reason. — George Santayana
Habit is stronger than reason. — George Santayana
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
— George Santayana
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
— George Santayana
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
— George Santayana
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
— George Santayana
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
— George Santayana
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
— George Santayana
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
— George Santayana
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.
— George Santayana
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
— George Santayana
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
— George Santayana
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
— George Santayana
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
— George Santayana
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
— George Santayana
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
— George Santayana
He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)
— George Santayana
All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.
— George Santayana
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
— George Santayana
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
— George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
— George Santayana
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
— George Santayana
It is a great bond to dislike the same things.
— George Santayana
The bible is literature, not dogma.
— George Santayana
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
— George Santayana
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
— George Santayana
The worship of power is an old religion.
— George Santayana
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
— George Santayana
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
— George Santayana
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
— George Santayana
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
— George Santayana
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
— George Santayana
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
— George Santayana
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
— George Santayana
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.
— George Santayana
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
— George Santayana
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
— George Santayana
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
— George Santayana