Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. — George Santayana Birth Copy Share Image
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. — George Santayana Angle Copy Share Image
Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly… — George Santayana Bad man Copy Share Image
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by… — George Santayana Chapel Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Ballast Copy Share Image
“faith in the intellect...is the only faith yet sanctioned by its fruits” — George Santayana Faith Copy Share Image
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms. — George Santayana Abandon 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
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Aim Copy Share Image
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there… — George Santayana Doubt Copy Share Image
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally… — George Santayana Reform Copy Share Image
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic… — George Santayana Children Copy Share Image
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. — George Santayana Charter Copy Share Image
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. — George Santayana Environment Copy Share Image
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. — George Santayana Dream Copy Share Image
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him. — George Santayana Advice Copy Share Image
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Approach Copy Share Image
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive… — George Santayana Amusement Copy Share Image
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana Arise Copy Share Image
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved… — George Santayana Adventure 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
The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit. — George Santayana Bearing fruit Copy Share Image
