Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence… — George Santayana Aversion Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and… — George Santayana Class Copy Share Image
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted… — George Santayana Adopted Copy Share Image
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. — George Santayana Argument Copy Share Image
“The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.” — George Santayana Psychology Copy Share Image
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana Architecture Copy Share Image
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;… — George Santayana Contempt Copy Share Image
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable,… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
“What ought to be imperfect in time is, because of its very imperfection there, perfect when viewed under the form of eternity.… — George Santayana Faith Copy Share Image
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is… — George Santayana History Copy Share Image
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
“There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society… — George Santayana Poetry Copy Share Image
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. — George Santayana People Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one. — George Santayana Aristocratic Copy Share Image
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana Fancy Copy Share Image
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. — George Santayana History Copy Share Image
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement… — George Santayana Artifice Copy Share Image
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the… — George Santayana Friends Copy Share Image
It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed… — George Santayana Adventurer Copy Share Image
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned — George Santayana Fashion Copy Share Image
