It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination. — George Santayana 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
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. — George Santayana Inspirational Copy Share Image
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it. — George Santayana Change Copy Share Image
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribebale, what it is or what it means can never be said. — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. — George Santayana Language 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
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy. — George Santayana Contemplation 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 traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and… — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a… — George Santayana Art 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
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
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
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
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
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all… — George Santayana 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
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“It would be easy, however, to exaggerate the havoc wrought by such artificial conditions. The monotony we observe in mankind must not… — George Santayana Nature of man Copy Share Image
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Absolutes Copy Share Image
There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us… — George Santayana Ashamed Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Ambition Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
