History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. — George Santayana History Copy Share Image
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment. — George Santayana Existence Copy Share Image
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. — George Santayana Comedy Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. — George Santayana Jealous Copy Share Image
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. — George Santayana Intelligence Copy Share Image
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it… — George Santayana Accidents Copy Share Image
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the… — George Santayana Crime Copy Share Image
To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be… — George Santayana Bewitched Copy Share Image
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are. — George Santayana Conventions Copy Share Image
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress. — George Santayana Action Copy Share Image
“All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.” — George Santayana Bearable Copy Share Image
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of… — George Santayana Beauty 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
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which… — George Santayana All things Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because… — George Santayana Consistent Copy Share Image
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable,… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us… — George Santayana Add 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
Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the… — George Santayana Chiefs Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian, like the missionary, is often an irreducible enemy of the people he seeks to befriend, because he has not imagination… — George Santayana Humanitarian Copy Share Image
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in… — George Santayana Add 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
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