3 December 2020 George Santayana 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.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
3 December 2020 George Santayana History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
3 December 2020 George Santayana To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
3 December 2020 George Santayana It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
3 December 2020 George Santayana By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.
3 December 2020 George Santayana To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
3 December 2020 George Santayana That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
3 December 2020 George Santayana 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.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
