The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also. — 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
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No… — 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
