A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like? — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine… If we dramatize its life and conceive… — 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
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — 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
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best… — 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
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
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
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be… — 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
