Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana Achieve Copy Share Image
“Since the days of Descartes it has been a conception familiar to philosophers that every visible event in nature might be explained… — George Santayana Communication Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a… — George Santayana Affinity Copy Share Image
... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives… — George Santayana Death Copy Share Image
Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes,… — George Santayana Believe Copy Share Image
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. — George Santayana Body Copy Share Image
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye… — George Santayana Belly Copy Share Image
It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying… — George Santayana Dentist Copy Share Image
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the… — George Santayana Divine Copy Share Image
A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much… — George Santayana All things Copy Share Image
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried. — George Santayana Drink Copy Share Image
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. — George Santayana Intellectual Copy Share Image
In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice… — George Santayana Choices Copy Share Image
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. — George Santayana Experience Copy Share Image
To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals… — George Santayana Harmony Copy Share Image
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. — George Santayana Accidents Copy Share Image
The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are… — George Santayana Calling Copy Share Image
