As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility — George Santayana Copy Share Image
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. — 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
