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Famous George Santayana Quotes
“We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.”
“A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.”
“I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.”
“Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.”
“Docility is the observable half of reason.”
“Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.”
“Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.”
“To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.”
“Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.”
“Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.”
“A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.”
“Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.”
“There is no dunce like a mature dunce.”
“We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.”
“Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.”
“Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway”
“Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.”
“Memory itself is an internal rumour.”
“A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.”