Quotes By George Santayana
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
George Santayana
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
George Santayana
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
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
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
George Santayana
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
George Santayana
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana