All George Santayana Quotes
- The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with… Any
- A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. Free
- Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. Achieve
- Habit is stronger than reason. Habit
- Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked. Flower
- The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt. Affinities
- If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless… Despise
- Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what… Assertion
- That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. Aging
- Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental. Art
- The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. Art
- Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception… Beauty
- To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful. All
- Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful. Beautiful
- The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it… Beauty
- Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. Character
- Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith. Christianity
- To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. Borrowed
- There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a… Been
- We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together. Darling
- Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. All
- Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. Always Bent
- All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. Affected
- Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own… Accusation
- A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. Conventional