Inspirational Quotes by George Santayana

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

— George Santayana

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

— George Santayana

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

— George Santayana

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

— George Santayana

A friend's only gift is himself.

— George Santayana

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

— George Santayana

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

— George Santayana

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

— George Santayana

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

— George Santayana

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

— George Santayana

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

— George Santayana

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

— George Santayana

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

— George Santayana

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

— George Santayana

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are…

— George Santayana

...so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected…

— George Santayana

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

— George Santayana

Fear first created the gods.

— George Santayana

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

— George Santayana

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

— George Santayana

There is no right government except good government.

— George Santayana

All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

— George Santayana

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

— George Santayana

Docility is the observable half of reason.

— George Santayana

It is the acme of life to understand life.

— George Santayana

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

— George Santayana

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

— George Santayana

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

— George Santayana

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

— George Santayana

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

— George Santayana

In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything…

— George Santayana

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

— George Santayana

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

— George Santayana

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

— George Santayana

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

— George Santayana

Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

— George Santayana

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

— George Santayana

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

— George Santayana