George Santayana Quotes

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity... view

By: George Santayana

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it... view

By: George Santayana

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato... view

By: George Santayana

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with.. view

By: George Santayana

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness.. view

By: George Santayana

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world... view

By: George Santayana

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption.. view

By: George Santayana

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child... view

By: George Santayana

America is a young country with an old mentality... view

By: George Santayana

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions.. view

By: George Santayana

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument.. view

By: George Santayana

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep... view

By: George Santayana

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit... view

By: George Santayana

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim... view

By: George Santayana

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them... view

By: George Santayana

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end... view

By: George Santayana

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny... view

By: George Santayana

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... view

By: George Santayana

Depression is rage spread thin... view

By: George Santayana

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy... view

By: George Santayana

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character... view

By: George Santayana

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him... view

By: George Santayana

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine... view

By: George Santayana

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all... view

By: George Santayana

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world... view

By: George Santayana

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds... view

By: George Santayana

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world... view

By: George Santayana

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth... view

By: George Santayana

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself... view

By: George Santayana

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors... view

By: George Santayana

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better... view

By: George Santayana

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others... view

By: George Santayana

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say... view

By: George Santayana

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited... view

By: George Santayana

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body... view

By: George Santayana

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it... view

By: George Santayana

Happiness is the only sanction of life.. view

By: George Santayana

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions.. view

By: George Santayana

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there... view

By: George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety... view

By: George Santayana

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past.. view

By: George Santayana

Tyrants are seldom free.. view

By: George Santayana