Spirituality Quotes by George Santayana

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

The earth has music for those who listen.

— George Santayana

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

— 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

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

— George Santayana

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

— 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

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong,…

— George Santayana

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

— 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

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

— George Santayana

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in…

— George Santayana