--- title: "4 Irrational Quotes By George Santayana" description: "4 Irrational quotes by George Santayana. Plus more from George Santayana and more Irrational sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a0/george-santayana-478_abandon_we-should-have-to-abandon-our-vested-ill_1252492.png" --- > [We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/we-should-have-to-abandon-our-vested-illusions-our-irrational/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a0/george-santayana-478_abandon_we-should-have-to-abandon-our-vested-ill_1252492.png) > [The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/the-irrational-in-the-human-has-something-about-it-altogether/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/george-santayana-478_irrational_the-irrational-in-the-human-has-somethin_1379234.png) > [The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/the-family-is-an-early-expedient-and-in-many-ways-irrational-if-the/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/105/george-santayana-478_ants_the-family-is-an-early-expedient-and-in_1843634.jpg) > [Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/reason-in-my-philosophy-is-only-a-harmony-among-irrational-impulses/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/george-santayana-478_harmony_reason-in-my-philosophy-is-only-a-harmon_2454449.png) ## Other authors on Irrational - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ayn-rand-15943.jpg) Ayn Rand 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/ayn-rand/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-erich-fromm-33632.jpg) Erich Fromm 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/erich-fromm/) - [Aristotle 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-ellis-10499.jpg) Albert Ellis 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/albert-ellis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dan-ariely-26126.jpg) Dan Ariely 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/dan-ariely/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-karl-popper-55250.jpg) Karl Popper 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/karl-popper/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-christopher-hitchens-23938.jpg) Christopher Hitchens 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/christopher-hitchens/) ## More by George Santayana > [Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/perhaps-the-universe-is-nothing-but-an-equilibrium-of-idiocies/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/the-combative-instinct-is-a-savage-prompting-by-which-one-man-s-good/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/sanctity-and-genius-are-as-rebellious-as-vice/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/to-attempt-to-be-religious-without-practicing-a-specific-religion-is/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/the-contemporary-world-has-turned-its-back-on-the-attempt-and-even-on/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/the-pride-of-the-artisan-in-his-art-and-its-uses-is-pride-in-himself/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/if-pain-could-have-cured-us-we-should-long-ago-have-been-saved/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/towers-in-a-modern-town-are-a-frill-and-a-survival-they-seem-like-the/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/wealth-religion-military-victory-have-more-rhetorical-than/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/whoever-it-was-who-searched-the-heavens-with-a-telescope-and-found-no/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/it-is-easier-to-make-a-saint-out-of-a-libertine-than-out-of-a-prig/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/experience-is-a-mere-whiff-or-rumble-produced-by-enormously-complex/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/miracles-are-propitious-accidents-the-natural-causes-of-which-are-too/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/memory-itself-is-an-internal-rumour-and-when-to-this-hearsay-within/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) > [Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/familiarity-breeds-contempt-only-when-it-breeds-inattention/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/george-santayana/#itemlist", "name": "4 Irrational Quotes By George Santayana", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Santayana" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/we-should-have-to-abandon-our-vested-illusions-our-irrational/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a0/george-santayana-478_abandon_we-should-have-to-abandon-our-vested-ill_1252492.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a0/george-santayana-478_abandon_we-should-have-to-abandon-our-vested-ill_1252492.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a0/george-santayana-478_abandon_we-should-have-to-abandon-our-vested-ill_1252492.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.” — George Santayana", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Santayana" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/the-irrational-in-the-human-has-something-about-it-altogether/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/george-santayana-478_irrational_the-irrational-in-the-human-has-somethin_1379234.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/george-santayana-478_irrational_the-irrational-in-the-human-has-somethin_1379234.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/george-santayana-478_irrational_the-irrational-in-the-human-has-somethin_1379234.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the…” — George Santayana", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. 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