Best George Santayana Quotes
- I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me. Alien
- Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only… Artist
- It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. Castigate
- If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your… All
- Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. Absolute
- Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified… Accident
- Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether. Accidents
- When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone. All
- Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity… Center
- The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's… Class
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Advice
- Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection… Affection
- Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. All
- To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content. Condemn
- Docility is the observable half of reason. Docility
- Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. Denying
- You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. Body
- Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. Among
- To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. Classic
- To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so. Aesthetes
- The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best… Best
- Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a… Bubble
- Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them. Cannot Hope
- Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. Each
- Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. Arise
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