Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if… — George Santayana Arguing Copy Share Image
A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary. — George Santayana Imaginary Copy Share Image
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful. — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress. — George Santayana Action Copy Share Image
Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a… — George Santayana Death Copy Share Image
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. — George Santayana Balance Copy Share Image
“To the uninitiated they have merely murmured, with a pitying smile and a wave of the hand: What! are you still troubled… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Those were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not… — George Santayana Eternal friendship Copy Share Image
Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith. — George Santayana Christianity Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Active Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it. — George Santayana Order Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Absolutes Copy Share Image
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair. — George Santayana Bed Copy Share Image
At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary… — George Santayana Boat Copy Share Image
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. — George Santayana Rational Copy Share Image
The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and… — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which… — George Santayana All things Copy Share Image
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana Endeavor Copy Share Image
“A man is morally free when...he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity” — George Santayana Truth Copy Share Image
The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies. — George Santayana Antipathy Copy Share Image
