Should Quotes by George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

— George Santayana

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

— George Santayana

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

— George Santayana

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

— George Santayana

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good…

— George Santayana

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

— George Santayana

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

— George Santayana

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine…

— George Santayana

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort…

— George Santayana

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if…

— George Santayana

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds…

— George Santayana

There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us…

— George Santayana

It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another…

— George Santayana

The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many…

— George Santayana

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

— George Santayana

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be…

— George Santayana

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

— George Santayana