Best George Santayana Words
- Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. Measure
- I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish. Axe
- Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy,… Craving
- There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it… Familiar
- It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and… Adventurer
- There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to… Been
- Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. Become Mean
- Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. Courage
- Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ... Animal
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… Absolute
- As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends. Always Finds
- Heaven is to be at peace with things. Heaven
- Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest… Another Makes
- Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just,… Argue
- Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. Affords
- If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. All
- Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good. Beauty
- A friend's only gift is himself. Gift
- The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and… Calling
- For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned Afterwards
- The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence Admiration
- The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them Bring
- The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything. Abreast
- Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. Especially
- Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched… Brain
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