What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like? — George Santayana Body Copy Share Image
“faith in the intellect...is the only faith yet sanctioned by its fruits” — George Santayana Faith Copy Share Image
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana History Copy Share Image
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done… — George Santayana Accusation Copy Share Image
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome. — George Santayana Inferiority Copy Share Image
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility — 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 Curiosity 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 Friend Copy Share Image
Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a… — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given… — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there… — George Santayana Chastity Copy Share Image
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any… — George Santayana Anxiety Copy Share Image
Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of… — 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 Age Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Adventure Copy Share Image
Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of… — George Santayana Beautiful 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
Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly… — George Santayana Anxious Copy Share Image
“To the uninitiated they have merely murmured, with a pitying smile and a wave of the hand: What! are you still troubled… — George Santayana Uninitiated Copy Share Image
“What ought to be imperfect in time is, because of its very imperfection there, perfect when viewed under the form of eternity.… — George Santayana Faith Copy Share Image
It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another… — George Santayana Authority Copy Share Image
