George Santayana Quotes & Wallpapers
Total Quotes: 556
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. George Santayana
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. George Santayana
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful. George Santayana
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. George Santayana
We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together. George Santayana
Docility is the observable half of reason. George Santayana
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. George Santayana
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
A simple life is its own reward. George Santayana
Memory... is an internal rumor. George Santayana
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing. George Santayana
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. George Santayana
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding. George Santayana
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice. George Santayana
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. George Santayana
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention. George Santayana
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world. George Santayana
Mortality has its compensations: one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. George Santayana
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility. George Santayana
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence. George Santayana
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous... to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. George Santayana
A country without a memory is a country of madmen. George Santayana
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. George Santayana
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. George Santayana
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. George Santayana
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. George Santayana
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. George Santayana
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. George Santayana
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. George Santayana
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. George Santayana
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them. George Santayana
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. George Santayana
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. George Santayana
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. George Santayana
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. George Santayana
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? George Santayana
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence. George Santayana
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence. George Santayana
All spiritual interests are supported by animal life. George Santayana
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. George Santayana
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them George Santayana
It is wisdom to believe the heart. George Santayana
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. George Santayana
Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it. George Santayana
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