Best George Santayana Thoughts
- Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk,… Alone
- Oaths are the fossils of piety. Broken Promises
- Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has… Almost Every
- Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not… All
- Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any. Any
- Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. Architecture
- Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it… Art
- The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence. All
- Beware of long arguments and long beards. Advice
- Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. Aesthetic
- It is a great bond to dislike the same things. Affinity
- Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. Apologists
- All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced. All
- What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like? Bodies
- Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. Beg
- The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity. Christ
- The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger. All
- With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. Any
- The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies. All
- If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters. Clearness
- There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. Amid
- Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment. Considered
- To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will… Directions
- It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our… Amiss
- A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. Character
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