Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. — George Santayana Emotion Copy Share Image
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana Aesthetic Copy Share Image
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. — George Santayana Friendship Copy Share Image
My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule. — George Santayana Fool Copy Share Image
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention. — George Santayana Contempt Copy Share Image
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. — George Santayana Contradiction 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
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. — George Santayana Events Copy Share Image
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than… — George Santayana Book Copy Share Image
“To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.” — George Santayana Arrogant Copy Share Image
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone. — George Santayana Belief Copy Share Image
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the… — George Santayana Divine Copy Share Image
He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. — George Santayana Awe Copy Share Image
“The difficulty, after having the experience to symbolize, lies only in having enough imagination to suspend it in a thought; and further… — George Santayana Adversity Copy Share Image
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces… — George Santayana Brilliant Copy Share Image
... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives… — George Santayana Death Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
“Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural… — George Santayana Change Copy Share Image
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger. — George Santayana Christian Copy Share Image
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination. — George Santayana Community Copy Share Image
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. — George Santayana Body Copy Share Image
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. — George Santayana Beginning Copy Share Image
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana Chastity Copy Share Image
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. — George Santayana Enhances Copy Share Image
The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies. — George Santayana Equilibrium Copy Share Image
