The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence — George Santayana Admiration Copy Share Image
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. — George Santayana Death Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. — George Santayana Harmony Copy Share Image
Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason. — George Santayana Habit Copy Share Image
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. — George Santayana Philosophers Copy Share Image
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana Accidents Copy Share Image
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz… — George Santayana America Copy Share Image
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is… — George Santayana Contradiction Copy Share Image
What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man… — George Santayana Buddhism Copy Share Image
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had… — George Santayana Calm Copy Share Image
Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a… — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any… — George Santayana Anxiety 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 Chastity Copy Share Image
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as… — George Santayana Affection Copy Share Image
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. — George Santayana 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
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
“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
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence. — George Santayana Consciousness Copy Share Image
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
