The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit. — George Santayana Bearing fruit Copy Share Image
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. — George Santayana Egotism Copy Share Image
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana Architecture Copy Share Image
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets. — George Santayana Language Copy Share Image
Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. — George Santayana Famous love Copy Share Image
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything. — George Santayana Aim Copy Share Image
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think… — George Santayana Affection Copy Share Image
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
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends. — George Santayana Friendship 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
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. — George Santayana Conclusions Copy Share Image
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. — George Santayana Advertising Copy Share Image
The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies. — George Santayana Antipathy Copy Share Image
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. — George Santayana Creativity Copy Share Image
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is… — George Santayana Germany Copy Share Image
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine… — George Santayana Authority Copy Share Image
Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall… — George Santayana Accidents 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
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old… — George Santayana Adventure Copy Share Image
A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much… — George Santayana All things 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
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience… — George Santayana Causes Copy Share Image
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. — George Santayana Death Copy Share Image
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence — George Santayana Admiration Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason. — George Santayana Habit Copy Share Image
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. — George Santayana Harmony Copy Share Image
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me. — George Santayana Alien Copy Share Image
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. — George Santayana America Copy Share Image
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. — George Santayana Honey Copy Share Image
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. — George Santayana Brain 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
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. — George Santayana Long Copy Share Image
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. — George Santayana Absent Copy Share Image
The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder. — George Santayana Battle Copy Share Image
