A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content. — 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
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
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
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. — 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
