Friendship Quotes by George Santayana

A friend's only gift is himself.

— George Santayana

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ...

— George Santayana

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

— George Santayana

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

— George Santayana

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

— George Santayana

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

— George Santayana

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

— George Santayana

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

— George Santayana

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

— George Santayana

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

— George Santayana

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not…

— George Santayana

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are…

— George Santayana

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the…

— George Santayana

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken…

— George Santayana

“Those were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not…

— George Santayana

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,…

— George Santayana