Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. — George Santayana Famous love Copy Share Image
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets. — George Santayana Language Copy Share Image
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies. — George Santayana Columbus Copy Share Image
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. — George Santayana Long Copy Share Image
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. — George Santayana Brain Copy Share Image
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. — George Santayana Honey Copy Share Image
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. — George Santayana America Copy Share Image
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own… — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it… — George Santayana Articles Copy Share Image
All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and… — George Santayana Behinds 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
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. — George Santayana Everyday Copy Share Image
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence… — George Santayana Aversion Copy Share Image
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. — George Santayana First love Copy Share Image
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. — George Santayana Agree Copy Share Image
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of… — George Santayana Afar Copy Share Image
Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say… — George Santayana Asylums 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
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there… — George Santayana Chastity Copy Share Image
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any… — George Santayana Anxiety 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
Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a… — George Santayana Beautiful 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
“What ought to be imperfect in time is, because of its very imperfection there, perfect when viewed under the form of eternity.… — George Santayana Faith 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
“To the uninitiated they have merely murmured, with a pitying smile and a wave of the hand: What! are you still troubled… — George Santayana Uninitiated Copy Share Image
Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly… — George Santayana Anxious Copy Share Image
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by… — George Santayana Chapel Copy Share Image
Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Adventure Copy Share Image
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