Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. — George Santayana Dignity Copy Share Image
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. — George Santayana Chaos Copy Share Image
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape. — George Santayana Anxiety Copy Share Image
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana Blunders Copy Share Image
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. — George Santayana Body 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
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. — George Santayana Design 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
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort… — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's… — George Santayana Happiness Copy Share Image
It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed… — George Santayana Adventurer Copy Share Image
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement… — George Santayana Actor Copy Share Image
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy… — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or… — George Santayana Belief Copy Share Image
An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. — George Santayana Knowledge Copy Share Image
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. — George Santayana Emotional Copy Share Image
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana History Copy Share Image
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. — George Santayana Evil Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. — George Santayana America Copy Share Image
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. — George Santayana Shrapnel Copy Share Image
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. — George Santayana Communication Copy Share Image
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. — George Santayana Bible Copy Share Image
