Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies. — George Santayana Hero Copy Share Image
Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked. — George Santayana Flower Copy Share Image
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. — George Santayana Common sense Copy Share Image
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether. — George Santayana Accidents Copy Share Image
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. — George Santayana Mind Copy Share Image
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. — George Santayana First love Copy Share Image
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence… — George Santayana Aversion Copy Share Image
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. — George Santayana Everyday Copy Share Image
All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and… — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are… — George Santayana Imagination Copy Share Image
“Scepticism 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
Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall… — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product,… — George Santayana Action Copy Share Image
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality…The… — George Santayana Immortality Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. — George Santayana Hunger Copy Share Image
Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ... — George Santayana Animal Copy Share Image
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. — George Santayana Intelligence Copy Share Image
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world. — George Santayana Earth Copy Share Image
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. — George Santayana Adversity Copy Share Image
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. — George Santayana Assurance Copy Share Image
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it. — George Santayana Inspirational Copy Share Image
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. — George Santayana Balance Copy Share Image
It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own… — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
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