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
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the… — George Santayana Crime Copy Share Image
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it… — George Santayana Accidents Copy Share Image
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 Image
“A man is morally free when...he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity” — George Santayana Truth Copy Share Image
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. — George Santayana Achievement Copy Share Image
“We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society?” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment — George Santayana Biology Copy Share Image
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion… — George Santayana Devil Copy Share Image
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
“All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. — George Santayana Fear Copy Share Image
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. — George Santayana Accidents 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 Animal 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 Flower Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana Chastity 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 Friends Copy Share Image
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“A good citizen must follow the movement of public affairs, so as to cast his vote intelligently, and know whether the party… — George Santayana Good citizen Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. — George Santayana Comedy Copy Share Image
... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being… — George Santayana Heart Copy Share Image
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana Boston Copy Share Image
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them… — George Santayana Affinity 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 Body Copy Share Image
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye… — 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 Animal Copy Share Image
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the… — George Santayana Irrational Copy Share Image
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous. — George Santayana Heaven Copy Share Image
All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong,… — George Santayana Life Copy Share Image
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
