George SantayanaWe need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and … ▶361LifeTime
George SantayanaThe best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive ✨ George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings, p.326, Indiana University Pr… ▶373Life
George SantayanaI feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness. 351Death
George SantayanaA way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world. ✨ George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings, p.310, Ind… ▶373Reflection
George SantayanaMy 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. ✨ Sol… ▶351HumanityTruth
George SantayanaSkepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. ✨ Quotations for Our Time edited by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.373ReadingTime
George SantayanaThere is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been,… ▶362HumanityLifeThought
George SantayanaThere is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with. ✨ George Santayana (1934). Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana, p.37, Рипол Классик351Humanity
George SantayanaTime is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. ✨ George Santayana (1937). The Wor… ▶341Time
George SantayanaLife is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. ✨ Articles and Essays341Life
George SantayanaI believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. ✨ George Santayana (2003). The Letters of George Santayana, p.338, MIT Press363HumanityThoughtTruth
George SantayanaThe highest form of vanity is love of fame. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Understanding, p.84, 谷月社374HumanityLifeLove
George SantayanaA man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. ✨ George Santayana (1986). The Works … ▶352Time
George SantayanaChristianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being f… ▶352Love
George SantayanaCulture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Under… ▶374HumanityLife
George SantayanaUselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification. ✨… ▶375Reflection
George SantayanaThe superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time… ▶364Time
George SantayanaTyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ✨ George Santayana (1995). Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and… ▶331HumanityPoliticsReflection
George SantayanaThe Soul is the voice of the body's interests. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human P… ▶364HumanityLifeReading
George SantayanaThe great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ✨ George Santayana (1934). Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana, p.9, Рипол Классик… ▶342LifeThought
George SantayanaEven under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center. ✨ George Santayana (1968). Santayana on America: Ess… ▶342DeathLifePhilosophy
George SantayanaThe human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.331HumanityThought
George SantayanaWhen all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of… ▶365HumanityLife
George SantayanaThe arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. ✨ George Santayana (2012). The Sense of Beauty… ▶354Life
George SantayanaThe passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ✨ George Santayana (1934). Little essays drawn from the writings of Ge… ▶321Love
George SantayanaParents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Huma… ▶376DeathHumanityLife
George SantayanaMusic is essentially useless, as is life.365Life
George SantayanaThe Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. ✨ Quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1939 See Calonne 1; Nansen 1; Trollop… ▶321Reading
George SantayanaThe mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad. ✨ Ge… ▶322HumanityThoughtTruth
George SantayanaMemory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to… ▶355HumanityLifeThought
