A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world. — George Santayana Earth Copy Share Image
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them. — George Santayana Believe Copy Share Image
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. — George Santayana Adversity Copy Share Image
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke. — George Santayana Acquire Copy Share Image
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. — George Santayana Balance Copy Share Image
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. — George Santayana Assurance Copy Share Image
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it. — George Santayana Inspirational Copy Share Image
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion… — George Santayana Devil Copy Share Image
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and… — George Santayana Dread Copy Share Image
Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment — George Santayana Biology Copy Share Image
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
“We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society?” — George Santayana Agreeable Copy Share Image
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are… — George Santayana Friends 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
“A habitual indulgence in the inarticulate is a sure sign of the philosopher who has not learned to think, the poet who… — George Santayana Inarticulate 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
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally… — George Santayana Assurance Copy Share Image
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of… — George Santayana Advertising Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists… — George Santayana Capable Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Alive Copy Share Image
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Easier Copy Share Image
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. — George Santayana Controlled Copy Share Image
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. — George Santayana Faculty Copy Share Image
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. — George Santayana Hunger Copy Share Image
Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ... — George Santayana Animal Copy Share Image
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. — George Santayana Enhances Copy Share Image
The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him. — George Santayana Empty Copy Share Image
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies. — George Santayana Equilibrium Copy Share Image
Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked. — George Santayana Flower Copy Share Image
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies. — George Santayana Hero Copy Share Image
