Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. — George Santayana Freedom Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many… — George Santayana Animal Copy Share Image
“The difficulty, after having the experience to symbolize, lies only in having enough imagination to suspend it in a thought; and further… — George Santayana Adversity Copy Share Image
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. — George Santayana Faculty Copy Share Image
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them… — George Santayana Affinity Copy Share Image
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana History Copy Share Image
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
“When we feel the poetic thrill, is it not that we find sweep in the concise and depth in the clear, as… — George Santayana Adventure Copy Share Image
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply,… — George Santayana Astronomy Copy Share Image
It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only… — George Santayana Bidding Copy Share Image
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. — George Santayana Exercise Copy Share Image
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what… — George Santayana Bubbles Copy Share Image
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and… — George Santayana Dread Copy Share Image
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana Boston Copy Share Image
It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another… — George Santayana Authority Copy Share Image
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy… — George Santayana Depth Copy Share Image
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. — George Santayana Depth Copy Share Image
Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost. — George Santayana Aroma Copy Share Image
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence. — George Santayana Consciousness Copy Share Image
