GEORGE SANTAYANA Quotes
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring
George Santayana
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
George Santayana
England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America.
George Santayana
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
George Santayana
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca.
George Santayana
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
George Santayana
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humours.
George Santayana
