Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Those were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana Copy Share
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others,… — George Santayana Copy Share
