Quotes By George Santayana
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
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.
George Santayana
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.
George Santayana
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
George Santayana
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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.
George Santayana
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
George Santayana
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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