Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs. — George Santayana Affair Copy Share Image
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history. — George Santayana Artifice Copy Share Image
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone… — George Santayana Animal Copy Share Image
The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. — George Santayana Sacrifice Copy Share Image
Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in… — George Santayana Animal Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Alive Copy Share Image
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. — George Santayana First love Copy Share Image
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone. — George Santayana Belief Copy Share Image
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence — George Santayana Admiration Copy Share Image
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. — George Santayana Aim Copy Share Image
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the… — George Santayana Crime Copy Share Image
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? — George Santayana Art 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
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana Advice 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
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally… — George Santayana Assurance Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian, like the missionary, is often an irreducible enemy of the people he seeks to befriend, because he has not imagination… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana Character 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
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