Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. — George Santayana Chaos Copy Share Image
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. — George Santayana Honey Copy Share Image
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. — George Santayana Natural Copy Share Image
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless… — George Santayana Harshness Copy Share Image
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think… — George Santayana Affection Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Blast Copy Share Image
There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable. — George Santayana Existence Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. — George Santayana Greater Copy Share Image
All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong,… — George Santayana Life 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
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome — George Santayana Overcoming Copy Share Image
The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him. — George Santayana Ifs Copy Share Image
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. — George Santayana Brain Copy Share Image
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. — George Santayana Mind Copy Share Image
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. — George Santayana Absolutes Copy Share Image
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary… — George Santayana Clearness Copy Share Image
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana Affected Copy Share Image
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers… — George Santayana Cases Copy Share Image
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea.… — George Santayana Appeals Copy Share Image
