Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw.… — George Santayana 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
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
