Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. — George Santayana Common sense Copy Share Image
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality. — George Santayana Born Copy Share Image
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. — George Santayana Body Copy Share Image
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. — George Santayana Believe Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana Chastity Copy Share Image
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. — George Santayana Flower Copy Share Image
Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in… — George Santayana Animal Copy Share Image
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. — George Santayana Accidents Copy Share Image
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. — George Santayana Fear Copy Share Image
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana Boston Copy Share Image
... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being… — George Santayana Heart Copy Share Image
In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central… — George Santayana Authority Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken… — George Santayana Characteristics Copy Share Image
An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed… — George Santayana Cured Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Ambition Copy Share Image
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with… — George Santayana Courage Copy Share Image
It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only… — George Santayana Bidding 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
“When we feel the poetic thrill, is it not that we find sweep in the concise and depth in the clear, as… — George Santayana Adventure Copy Share Image
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. — George Santayana Capacity Copy Share Image
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. — George Santayana Beginning Copy Share Image
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried. — George Santayana Drink Copy Share Image
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana Chastity 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
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. — George Santayana Knowledge Copy Share Image
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it. — George Santayana Cruel Copy Share Image
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. — George Santayana Chaos Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise — George Santayana Jealous Copy Share Image
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. — George Santayana Appreciate Copy Share Image
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. — George Santayana Greater Copy Share Image
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. — George Santayana Evil Copy Share Image
