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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned - George Santayana Quotes

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

George Santayana

 
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. - George Santayana Quotes

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

 Advertising American Philosopher
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. - George Santayana Quotes

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.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Atheism

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway - George Santayana Quotes

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

George Santayana

 
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. - George Santayana Quotes

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

 America American Philosopher
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. - George Santayana Quotes

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher

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 Quotes

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

 History Theater
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. - George Santayana Quotes

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. - George Santayana Quotes

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Chaos

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms. - George Santayana Quotes

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms.

George Santayana

 inspirational
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger - George Santayana Quotes

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger

George Santayana

 Christian
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. - George Santayana Quotes

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Events
Habit is stronger than reason - George Santayana Quotes

Habit is stronger than reason

George Santayana

 Habit
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity - George Santayana Quotes

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity

George Santayana

 Imagination
The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. - George Santayana Quotes

The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

George Santayana

 Skepticism

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. - George Santayana Quotes

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. - George Santayana Quotes

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Fame
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - 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

 American Philosopher Love
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. - George Santayana Quotes

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher
England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America - George Santayana Quotes

England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America

George Santayana

 America
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. - George Santayana Quotes

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality - George Santayana Quotes

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality

George Santayana

 Children
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content. - George Santayana Quotes

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content.

George Santayana

 Life
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited - George Santayana Quotes

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited

George Santayana

 Common Sense
Sanity is a madness put to good use. - George Santayana Quotes

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Madness
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity - George Santayana Quotes

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity

George Santayana

 Madness
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it - George Santayana Quotes

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

George Santayana

 History
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world - George Santayana Quotes

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world

George Santayana

 Events
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. - George Santayana Quotes

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. - George Santayana Quotes

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Learning
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. - George Santayana Quotes

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

George Santayana

 Advice Friends Or Friendship
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. - George Santayana Quotes

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

George Santayana

 Beauty
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are - George Santayana Quotes

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are

George Santayana

 Intelligence
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana Quotes

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Failure
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. - George Santayana Quotes

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

 Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible - George Santayana Quotes

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible

George Santayana

 Future
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana Quotes

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Family
Music is essentially useless, as is life - George Santayana Quotes

Music is essentially useless, as is life

George Santayana

 Life
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. - George Santayana Quotes

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Friends Or Friendship
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. - George Santayana Quotes

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Body
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure. - George Santayana Quotes

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

George Santayana

 Adventure
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana Quotes

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher School
The Bible is literature, not dogma. - George Santayana Quotes

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Literature
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana Quotes

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

 Birth
There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval - George Santayana Quotes

There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval

George Santayana

 Birth
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity. - George Santayana Quotes

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

 Birth Death
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper - George Santayana Quotes

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper

George Santayana

 Ambition
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. - George Santayana Quotes

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it - George Santayana Quotes

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it

George Santayana

 Dreams
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. - George Santayana Quotes

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Communication
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