3 December 2020 George Santayana The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
3 December 2020 George Santayana 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.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
3 December 2020 George Santayana I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
3 December 2020 George Santayana 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.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
3 December 2020 George Santayana 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.
3 December 2020 George Santayana When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
3 December 2020 George Santayana One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
3 December 2020 George Santayana For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
3 December 2020 George Santayana To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
