I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. — George Santayana Believe Copy Share Image
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and… — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything. — George Santayana Aim Copy Share Image
Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ... — George Santayana Animal Copy Share Image
“Masks are arrested expressions and admirable echoes of feeling, at once faithful, discrete, and superlative. Living things in contact with the air… — George Santayana Life Copy Share Image
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. — George Santayana Communication 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
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
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's… — George Santayana Happiness Copy Share Image
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility — George Santayana Easy Copy Share Image
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. — George Santayana Common sense Copy Share Image
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. — George Santayana Controlled Copy Share Image
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. — George Santayana Friendship 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
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. — George Santayana Assurance Copy Share Image
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. — George Santayana Friendship Copy Share Image
The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw.… — George Santayana Draws Copy Share Image
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The… — George Santayana Love Copy Share Image
