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George Santayana Quotes

George Santayana

American philosopher and poet Born in Madrid]

Nationality: Spanish- American
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Type: Poet
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Birth: 1863-1952
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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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, blo
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
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Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
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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.
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The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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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.
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
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