A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a… — 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
