“Now the zest of romanticism consists in taking what you know is an independent and ancient world as if it were material… — George Santayana Barbarism 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
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,… — George Santayana Deeper Copy Share Image
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. — George Santayana Disposition Copy Share Image
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. — George Santayana Advertising Copy Share Image
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. — George Santayana History Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Ambition Copy Share Image
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. — George Santayana Common Copy Share Image
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. — George Santayana Friendship Copy Share Image
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. — George Santayana America Copy Share Image
Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the… — George Santayana Chiefs Copy Share Image
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. — George Santayana Art 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
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any… — George Santayana Anxiety Copy Share Image
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. — George Santayana Hunger Copy Share Image
...so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected… — George Santayana Heart Copy Share Image
Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.… — George Santayana Being wise Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken… — George Santayana Characteristics Copy Share Image
“All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.” — George Santayana Wisdom Copy Share Image
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. — George Santayana Events Copy Share Image
