Soul Quotes by George Santayana

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

— George Santayana

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

— George Santayana

The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

— George Santayana

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

— George Santayana

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

— George Santayana

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

— George Santayana

Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

— George Santayana

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy…

— George Santayana

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

— George Santayana

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much…

— George Santayana

O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close…

— George Santayana

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying…

— George Santayana

Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the…

— George Santayana

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially…

— George Santayana

... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives…

— George Santayana

Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one…

— 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

Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a…

— George Santayana