George Santayana Quotes
+7A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
- George Santayana
+6Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
- George Santayana
+3Depression is rage spread thin.
- George Santayana
+3To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
- George Santayana
+3Life is neither a spectacle nor a feast, it is predicament.
- George Santayana
+3He gave the world another world.
- George Santayana
+1The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
- George Santayana
+1Sanity is madness put to good uses.
- George Santayana
+1Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
- George Santayana
+1Oaths are the fossils of piety.
- George Santayana
+1A man’s feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
- George Santayana
+1Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
- George Santayana
+1Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
- George Santayana
+1The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
- George Santayana
+1Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- George Santayana
+1For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned.
- George Santayana
+1Memory itself is an internal rumour.
- George Santayana
+1An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
- George Santayana
+1History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
- George Santayana
+1To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- George Santayana
+1Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana
+1The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
- George Santayana
+1Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
- George Santayana
+1A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
- George Santayana
+1Columbus found a world, and had no chart,Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.
- George Santayana
+1The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
- George Santayana
+1Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
- George Santayana
+1America is a young country with an old mentality.
- George Santayana
+1The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
- George Santayana
+1There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
0Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
- George Santayana
0The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
- George Santayana
0Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
- George Santayana
0The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
- George Santayana
