George Santayana Quotes & George Santayana Sayings

"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads." George Santayana "It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to." George Santayana "Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body." George Santayana "The Soul is the voice of the body's interests." George Santayana ... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. George Santayana Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. George Santayana The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. George Santayana Adages The Bible is literature, not dogma. George Santayana Remarks A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana Sayings Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. George Santayana Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. George Santayana Popular Quotes America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana Quotes An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. The Life of Reason, 1905-1906 George Santayana Remarks Art is delayed echo. George Santayana Popular Quotes As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends. George Santayana Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. George Santayana Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. George Santayana Quotes Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or an idea, but is really some stronger material force. George Santayana Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. George Santayana Depression is rage spread thin. George Santayana Quotes Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. George Santayana Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. George Santayana Remarks Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana Popular Quotes Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. George Santayana Quotations For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. George Santayana Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. Persons and Places: The Middle Span, 1945 George Santayana Sayings Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. George Santayana Quotations Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots. George Santayana Quotes Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. George Santayana Sayings Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. George Santayana Popular Quotes Habit is stronger than reason George Santayana Remarks Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. George Santayana Adages Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. George Santayana History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. George Santayana Quotations It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs. George Santayana Quotations It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. George Santayana It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. George Santayana Sayings It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana Popular Quotes It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior. George Santayana Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. George Santayana Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. George Santayana Popular Quotes Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. The Life of Reason, 1905-1906 George Santayana Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. George Santayana Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. George Santayana Quotes Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. George Santayana Adages Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. George Santayana Adages Memory itself is an internal rumour. George Santayana Sayings Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world George Santayana Adages Music is essentially useless, as life is. George Santayana Adages Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. George Santayana My atheism is true to the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their image, to be servants of their human interests. George Santayana Adages My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. George Santayana Quotes Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. George Santayana Adages Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure. George Santayana Nothing is so poor and melancholy as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. George Santayana Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. George Santayana Oaths are the fossils of piety. George Santayana Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations George Santayana Sayings Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. George Santayana Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality George Santayana Quotations Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual George Santayana Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. George Santayana Sayings Sanity is a madness put to good use. George Santayana Quotes Sanity is a madness put to good uses George Santayana Quotes Sanity is madness put to good uses. George Santayana Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. George Santayana Popular Quotes The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper George Santayana The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. George Santayana The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. Scepticism and Animal Faith, 1923 George Santayana The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity George Santayana The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. George Santayana The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it George Santayana The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. George Santayana Adages The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family. George Santayana Quotes The family is one of nature's masterpieces. George Santayana Remarks The family is one of nature's masterpieces. George Santayana The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity George Santayana Quotes The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. George Santayana Sayings The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.The Life of Reason, 1905-1906 George Santayana The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. George Santayana The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. George Santayana The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence George Santayana Adages The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form. George Santayana The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger George Santayana The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. George Santayana Remarks Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. George Santayana There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books. George Santayana There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it George Santayana Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana Sayings Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality George Santayana To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. George Santayana Adages To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana Sayings To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman George Santayana To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. George Santayana Popular Quotes To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. George Santayana Adages To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood. George Santayana Remarks To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. George Santayana Popular Quotes Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards. George Santayana Sayings We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible George Santayana Quotations Wisdom comes by disillusionment. George Santayana [Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. George Santayana