“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
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Approach Copy Share Image
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence. — George Santayana Consciousness Copy Share Image
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone. — George Santayana Belief Copy Share Image
He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. — George Santayana Awe 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 Character Copy Share Image
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic… — George Santayana Children Copy Share Image
The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses… — George Santayana Beauty 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
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it… — George Santayana Future 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
When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who… — 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 Ambition 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 Doubt Copy Share Image
Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall… — George Santayana Accidents Copy Share Image
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine… — George Santayana Authority 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
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is… — George Santayana Germany 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
Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a… — George Santayana Death Copy Share Image
