Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. — George Santayana Barbarism Copy Share Image
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs. — George Santayana Affair Copy Share Image
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. — George Santayana Communication Copy Share Image
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world. — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. — George Santayana Biology Copy Share Image
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you… — George Santayana Enough Copy Share Image
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. — George Santayana Adversity Copy Share Image
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies. — George Santayana Elements Copy Share Image
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism. — George Santayana Believe Copy Share Image
The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Aim Copy Share Image
A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much… — George Santayana All things Copy Share Image
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old… — George Santayana Adventure Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience… — George Santayana Causes Copy Share Image
When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who… — George Santayana Dies Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Ambition Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there… — George Santayana Doubt Copy Share Image
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine… — George Santayana Authority Copy Share Image
Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly… — George Santayana Anxious Copy Share Image
“To the uninitiated they have merely murmured, with a pitying smile and a wave of the hand: What! are you still troubled… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily… — George Santayana Authority Copy Share
“What ought to be imperfect in time is, because of its very imperfection there, perfect when viewed under the form of eternity. To live, to live just as we do, that—if we could only realize it—is the purpose and the crown of living. We must seek improvement; we must be dissatisfied with ourselves; that is the appointed attitude, the histrionic… — George Santayana Faith Copy Share
“Since the days of Descartes it has been a conception familiar to philosophers that every visible event in nature might be explained… — George Santayana Communication Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Adventure Copy Share Image
Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of… — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in… — George Santayana Chapel Copy Share
