Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. — George Santayana People Copy Share Image
“The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics… — George Santayana Exercise Copy Share Image
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. — George Santayana Happiness Copy Share Image
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana And love Copy Share Image
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. — George Santayana Faults Copy Share Image
People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another. — George Santayana Believe Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. — George Santayana Common Copy Share Image
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to… — George Santayana Aliens Copy Share Image
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given… — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had… — George Santayana Calm Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and… — George Santayana Benefits Copy Share Image
What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man… — George Santayana Buddhism Copy Share Image
Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a… — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine… If we dramatize its life and conceive… — George Santayana Amusement Copy Share Image
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is… — George Santayana Contradiction Copy Share Image
Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are… — George Santayana Development Copy Share Image
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana Existence Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's… — George Santayana Efficient Copy Share Image
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. — George Santayana Angle Copy Share Image
In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice… — George Santayana Choices Copy Share Image
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. — George Santayana Instincts Copy Share Image
“I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise.” — George Santayana Daily life 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
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
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. — George Santayana Pay Copy Share Image
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved… — George Santayana Adventure Copy Share Image
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. — George Santayana Conditions Copy Share Image
“O WORLD, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise,. And on the inward vision close… — George Santayana Dreams Copy Share Image
Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that… — George Santayana Army Copy Share Image
“The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.” — George Santayana Psychology Copy Share Image
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he… — George Santayana Despise Copy Share Image
Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good… — George Santayana Advantage 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
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them. — George Santayana Force 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
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana Accidents Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and… — George Santayana Class Copy Share Image
