Love Quotes by George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

— George Santayana

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

— George Santayana

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

— George Santayana

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

— George Santayana

A friend's only gift is himself.

— George Santayana

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

— George Santayana

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

— George Santayana

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

— George Santayana

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

— George Santayana

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

— George Santayana

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

— George Santayana

The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a…

— George Santayana

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as…

— George Santayana

... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being…

— George Santayana

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces…

— George Santayana

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality…The…

— 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

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think…

— George Santayana

Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one…

— George Santayana

“What ought to be imperfect in time is, because of its very imperfection there, perfect when viewed under the form of eternity.…

— George Santayana

“Now the zest of romanticism consists in taking what you know is an independent and ancient world as if it were material…

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

There is no right government except good government.

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

It is the acme of life to understand life.

— George Santayana

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

— George Santayana

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

— George Santayana