George Santayana Quotes
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.
Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
The 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 be felt.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
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.
My 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.
If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.