I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made… — George Santayana Echoes Copy Share Image
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. — George Santayana Acceptable Copy Share Image
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to… — George Santayana Aimlessness Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Ambition Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. — George Santayana Jealous Copy Share Image
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. — George Santayana Careers Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and… — George Santayana Benefits Copy Share Image
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. — George Santayana Language Copy Share Image
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies. — George Santayana Hero Copy Share Image
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. — George Santayana Death Copy Share Image
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. — George Santayana Communication Copy Share Image
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape. — George Santayana Anxiety 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 Barbarians Copy Share Image
To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic — George Santayana Psychology Copy Share Image
“The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics… — George Santayana Fitness Copy Share Image
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. — George Santayana Evil 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
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
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. — George Santayana Design Copy Share Image
Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are… — George Santayana Development Copy Share Image
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. — George Santayana Cry Copy Share Image
