Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there… — George Santayana Chastity Copy Share Image
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or… — George Santayana Belief 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
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. — George Santayana Fierce Copy Share Image
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. — George Santayana Adversity Copy Share Image
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. — George Santayana Convinced Copy Share Image
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether. — George Santayana Accidents Copy Share Image
Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason. — George Santayana Habit Copy Share Image
“Lucretius, I. 936-47: Veluti pueris absinthia tetra medentes Cum dare conantur, prius oras pocula circura Contingunt mellis dulci flavoque liquore, Ut puerorum… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of… — George Santayana Abandoned Copy Share Image
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common… — George Santayana Common Copy Share Image
The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. — George Santayana Conditions Copy Share Image
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than… — George Santayana Book Copy Share Image
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it. — George Santayana Truth Copy Share Image
The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another,… — George Santayana And love Copy Share Image
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it… — George Santayana Future Copy Share Image
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies. — George Santayana Columbus 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
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. — George Santayana Knowledge Copy Share Image
