It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers… — George Santayana Children Copy Share Image
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired. — George Santayana Cease Copy Share Image
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies. — George Santayana Elements Copy Share Image
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger. — George Santayana Christian Copy Share Image
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center. — George Santayana Circumstances Copy Share Image
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with… — George Santayana Courage Copy Share Image
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana Borrowed Copy Share Image
Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. — George Santayana And love Copy Share Image
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. — George Santayana Egotism Copy Share Image
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. — George Santayana Truth Copy Share Image
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. — George Santayana Faults Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is… — George Santayana Cities Copy Share Image
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering… — George Santayana Body Copy Share Image
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. — George Santayana Good humor Copy Share Image
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana Chastity Copy Share Image
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me. — George Santayana Aliens Copy Share Image
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the… — George Santayana Death Copy Share Image
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces… — George Santayana Brilliant Copy Share Image
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. — George Santayana Drink 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
