Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. — George Santayana Insanity Copy Share Image
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz… — George Santayana America Copy Share Image
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. — George Santayana Barbarism Copy Share Image
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. — George Santayana Events Copy Share Image
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. — George Santayana Man Copy Share Image
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. — George Santayana Belief Copy Share Image
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the… — George Santayana Irrational Copy Share Image
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. — George Santayana Creativity Copy Share Image
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length. — George Santayana Arms Copy Share Image
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with… — George Santayana Freedom Copy Share Image
He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. — George Santayana Awe Copy Share Image
Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say… — George Santayana Asylums Copy Share Image
To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be… — George Santayana Bewitched Copy Share Image
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort… — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. — George Santayana Dignity Copy Share Image
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together. — George Santayana Absurd Copy Share Image
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. — George Santayana Bible Copy Share Image
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana History Copy Share Image
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. — George Santayana Air Copy Share Image
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than… — George Santayana Chosen Copy Share Image
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends. — George Santayana Friendship Copy Share Image
