Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall… — George Santayana Accidents Copy Share Image
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality. — George Santayana Born Copy Share Image
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination. — George Santayana Community Copy Share Image
Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall… — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is… — George Santayana Germany Copy Share Image
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. — George Santayana Happiness Copy Share Image
A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel. — George Santayana Imagination Copy Share Image
It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana Existence Copy Share Image
My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule. — George Santayana Fool Copy Share Image
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long… — George Santayana Action Copy Share Image
“I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise.” — George Santayana Daily life Copy Share Image
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them. — George Santayana Force Copy Share Image
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old… — George Santayana Adventure 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
Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good… — George Santayana Advantage Copy Share Image
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. — George Santayana Foe Copy Share Image
To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful. — George Santayana All things Copy Share Image
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. — George Santayana Dignity Copy Share Image
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in… — George Santayana Add Copy Share Image
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is… — George Santayana Contradiction Copy Share Image
