Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are… — George Santayana Animal Copy Share Image
There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No… — George Santayana Accounts Copy Share Image
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place… — George Santayana Fruit Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. — George Santayana Comic Copy Share Image
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. — George Santayana Appreciate Copy Share Image
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. — George Santayana Pleasant Copy Share Image
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked. — George Santayana Flower Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Aim Copy Share Image
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content. — George Santayana Career Copy Share Image
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again — George Santayana Bounds Copy Share Image
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome. — George Santayana Inferiority Copy Share Image
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. — George Santayana Happiness Copy Share Image
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to… — George Santayana Enough Copy Share Image
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy… — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. — George Santayana Agree Copy Share Image
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. — George Santayana Emotional life Copy Share Image
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer… — George Santayana Carelessness Copy Share Image
Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are… — George Santayana Imagination Copy Share Image
“To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
