If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
...so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. — 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
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again — 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
