Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — 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
