Best George Santayana Wisdom
- Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies. Better
- Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like… Bad
- It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers. All
- Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts. Animal
- The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. Absent
- It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination. Eye
- It is the acme of life to understand life. Acme
- Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends. Essentially
- A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves… Body
- The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke. Acquire
- The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding. Allow
- The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. Drown
- Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. Ancient
- At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may… Best
- It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. Both
- Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley,… All
- Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence. Consciousness
- Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's… Authority
- The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit. Bearing
- Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice. Genius
- The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder. Battle
- All spiritual interests are supported by animal life. All
- Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. Chastity
- The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of… Character
- It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility Easy
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