The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional… — George Santayana Form Copy Share Image
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous. — George Santayana Heaven Copy Share Image
All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong,… — George Santayana Life 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
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. — George Santayana Concessions Copy Share Image
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the… — George Santayana Backgrounds Copy Share Image
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. — George Santayana Customs Copy Share Image
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned — George Santayana Fashion 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
