It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination. — George Santayana Eye Copy Share Image
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world. — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. — George Santayana Communication Copy Share Image
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. — George Santayana Long Copy Share Image
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. — George Santayana Appalling 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
There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable. — George Santayana Existence Copy Share Image
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. — George Santayana Ancient Copy Share Image
“Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable.” — George Santayana Creation Copy Share Image
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana Compensation Copy Share Image
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his… — George Santayana Body Copy Share Image
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. — George Santayana Fashion Copy Share Image
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all… — George Santayana Conventions 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
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 theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement… — George Santayana Actor 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 Ambition Copy Share Image
When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who… — George Santayana Dies Copy Share Image
A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas… — George Santayana Activity 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
“faith in the intellect...is the only faith yet sanctioned by its fruits” — George Santayana Faith Copy Share Image
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana History Copy Share Image
What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like? — George Santayana Body Copy Share Image
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana Achieve Copy Share Image
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence. — George Santayana Consciousness Copy Share Image
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Approach Copy Share Image
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. — George Santayana Being true Copy Share Image
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. — George Santayana Philosophers Copy Share Image
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. — George Santayana Birth Copy Share Image
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana Country Copy Share Image
