Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Those were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends. — 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
