Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. — George Santayana Friend Copy Share Image
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also. — George Santayana Curiosity Copy Share Image
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic… — George Santayana Children Copy Share Image
The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
“The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and… — George Santayana Ideals Mad Copy Share Image
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world. — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every… — George Santayana Balance Copy Share Image
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana Contradict Copy Share Image
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. — George Santayana Body Copy Share Image
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana Blunders Copy Share Image
To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic — George Santayana Psychology Copy Share Image
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to… — George Santayana Enough Copy Share Image
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. — George Santayana Absolutes Copy Share Image
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done… — George Santayana Accusation Copy Share Image
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana Classic Copy Share Image
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome. — George Santayana Inferiority 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
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair. — George Santayana Bed Copy Share Image
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. — George Santayana Design 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
All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and… — George Santayana Behinds Copy Share Image
It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying… — George Santayana Dentist Copy Share Image
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. — George Santayana Everyday Copy Share Image
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own… — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it… — George Santayana Articles Copy Share Image
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. — George Santayana Drink Copy Share Image
The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another,… — George Santayana And love 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
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place… — George Santayana Fruit Copy Share Image
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing. — George Santayana Atheism 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
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. — George Santayana Conventions Copy Share Image
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything… — George Santayana Concert Copy Share Image
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally… — George Santayana Reform 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
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than… — George Santayana Book Copy Share Image
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