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Famous George Santayana Quotes
“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”
“Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.”
“Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.”
“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”
“Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.”
“Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.”
“He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.”
“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”
“The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.”
“Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.”
“Habit is stronger than reason.”
“Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.”
“The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.”
“Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.”
“To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.”
“Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.”
“Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.”