“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.” — George Santayana Fanaticism Copy Share Image
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. — George Santayana Bible Copy Share Image
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. — George Santayana Communication Copy Share Image
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape. — George Santayana Anxiety Copy Share Image
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. — George Santayana Knowledge Copy Share Image
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. — George Santayana Chaos Copy Share Image
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age. — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid… — George Santayana Architecture Copy Share Image
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every… — George Santayana Balance 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
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
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
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be… — George Santayana Ants Copy Share Image
“Now the zest of romanticism consists in taking what you know is an independent and ancient world as if it were material… — George Santayana Barbarism Copy Share Image
