Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another… — 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
There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be… — 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
