George Santayana Quotes

George Santayana
George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
Born: Dec 16, 1863
Died: Sep 26, 1952
Always Experience Good Man Men World
Related authors: Albert Camus Aristotle Confucius Friedrich Nietzsche Lao Tzu Plato Socrates Sun Tzu
Oaths are the fossils of piety. George Santayana
Oaths Piety Fossils
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. George Santayana
Too Our Press Kind Would Would-Be Polite Courtesy Offense Conventions Against Skepticism Far Doubts
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana
Education Great Experience Difficulty Out Ideas Get
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. George Santayana
Beautiful World Liberty Wealth Walk Possessions Would About Adorn Take Like Beautiful Things Sort Because Private Personal Any Decline Should Away Among Things
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana
Death Enjoy Interval Birth Cure Save
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana
Savage Man Fool Will Young Older Laugh Wept Young Man Who Older Man
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. George Santayana
Experience Draw Seems Lead Never Most Conclusions Them Us Sworn
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. George Santayana
Thought Naught Plato
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. George Santayana
Time Evil Ruins Total Absolutely Existence Optimism Any Anywhere
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. George Santayana
Intelligence Seeing Quickness Things
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. George Santayana
Truth Simple Made Master Philosophy Pleases Consistent Easier Possible Fact Because False Than In Fact
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. George Santayana
Too Relinquished Chastity Like Readily Skepticism Should
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. George Santayana
Bible Wonderful Those Inspiration Understand Source Who
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. George Santayana
Man Simplicity Foe Spirit Sophistication Been
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. George Santayana
Live Society Air Like Insufficient Breathe Necessary
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. George Santayana
Confusion Chaos Our Minds Name Any Order Produces
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. George Santayana
Others More Rational Institution Making Less Suffers
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. George Santayana
Friendship People Mind Part Almost Another Spots Always Friends Union
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. George Santayana
Achievement Creative Prolific Seldom Periods Stirred Up Tranquillity Mankind
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. George Santayana
Knowledge Recognition Embrace Something Absent Salutation
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. George Santayana
Good Nothing Sacrifices Make Much Enhances
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. George Santayana
Fashion Innovation Imitation Benefit Something Without Produces Reason
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. George Santayana
Knowledge Possess We Cannot Recognition Embrace Eating Something Absent Devour Expect Salutation Cannot Mean
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. George Santayana
Witness Reward Mind Instrument Operation Body Function
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. George Santayana
Religion Soul Peace Seriously Myth Destiny Some More More Or Less Proposes Takes Make Enabling Method Human Which Less Help Each Human Soul
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. George Santayana
Sides Shatter Another Equally Always Nor Reform Intended Form Create Successful Means Act Two
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