Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. — George Santayana Progress Copy Share Image
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. — George Santayana Comedy Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment. — George Santayana Existence Copy Share Image
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. — 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 Cry Copy Share Image
Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith. — George Santayana Christianity Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. — George Santayana Biology Copy Share Image
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies. — George Santayana Elements Copy Share Image
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. — George Santayana Adversity Copy Share Image
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply,… — George Santayana Astronomy Copy Share Image
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally… — George Santayana Assurance Copy Share Image
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the… — George Santayana Death Copy Share Image
“A habitual indulgence in the inarticulate is a sure sign of the philosopher who has not learned to think, the poet who… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Alive Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of… — George Santayana Advertising Copy Share Image
My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule. — George Santayana Fool Copy Share Image
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination. — George Santayana Community Copy Share Image
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger. — George Santayana Christian Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention. — George Santayana Contempt Copy Share Image
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. — George Santayana Friendship Copy Share Image
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. — George Santayana Emotion Copy Share Image
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful. — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
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