People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like? — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with… — 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
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
O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best… — 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
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
