Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies. — George Santayana Equilibrium Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Evil Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Attempting Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Desire Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to… — George Santayana Ability Copy Share Image
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. — George Santayana Long Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid… — George Santayana Architecture Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Military Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if… — George Santayana Brain Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Easier 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
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana Accidents Copy Share Image
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us… — George Santayana Add Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention. — George Santayana Contempt Copy Share Image
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana Classic Copy Share Image
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment. — George Santayana Existence Copy Share Image
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. — George Santayana Contradiction Copy Share Image
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. — George Santayana Children Copy Share Image
“We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society?” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them. — George Santayana Believe Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Ambition Copy Share Image
