World Quotes by George Santayana

One real world is enough.

— George Santayana

He gave the world another world.

— George Santayana

Columbus gave the world another world.

— George Santayana

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

— George Santayana

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

— George Santayana

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

— George Santayana

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

— George Santayana

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

— George Santayana

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

— George Santayana

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

— 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

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

— George Santayana

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is…

— George Santayana

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice…

— George Santayana

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

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another,…

— 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

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to…

— 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

The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine… If we dramatize its life and conceive…

— George Santayana

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best…

— George Santayana

Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.…

— George Santayana

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which…

— 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

In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather…

— George Santayana

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

— George Santayana

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place…

— George Santayana

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

— George Santayana

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;…

— George Santayana

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

— 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

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

— George Santayana

I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made…

— George Santayana

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

— George Santayana

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…

— George Santayana

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