Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana And love Copy Share Image
Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. — George Santayana Famous love 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
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. — George Santayana Common Copy Share Image
To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women,… — George Santayana Dislike Copy Share Image
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribebale, what it is or what it means can never be said. — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. — George Santayana Progress Copy Share Image
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying… — George Santayana Destiny 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 Copy Share Image
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it. — George Santayana Inspirational Copy Share Image
Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that… — George Santayana Army Copy Share Image
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you… — George Santayana Enough Copy Share Image
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine… — George Santayana Authority Copy Share Image
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. — George Santayana Fear Copy Share Image
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke. — George Santayana Acquire Copy Share Image
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. — George Santayana Harmony Copy Share Image
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. — George Santayana Agree Copy Share Image
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy. — George Santayana Contemplation Copy Share Image
It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination. — George Santayana Eye Copy Share Image
“Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural… — George Santayana Change Copy Share Image
