The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. — George Santayana Body Copy Share Image
“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there… — George Santayana Contact Copy Share Image
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. — George Santayana Long Copy Share Image
We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which… — George Santayana Action Copy Share Image
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction… — George Santayana Absolutes Copy Share Image
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. — George Santayana Philosophy 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
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. — George Santayana Achievement Copy Share Image
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills… — George Santayana Familiar Copy Share Image
Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment — George Santayana Biology Copy Share Image
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana Blunders Copy Share Image
Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of… — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age. — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. — George Santayana Birth Copy Share Image
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets. — George Santayana Language Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas… — George Santayana Activity Copy Share Image
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. — George Santayana All things Copy Share Image
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. — George Santayana Capacity Copy Share Image
. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last… — George Santayana Cripples Copy Share Image
