1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana – [Education]
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana – [Fame]
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
George Santayana – [Focus]
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 – [Reason]
The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
George Santayana – [Tragedies]
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
George Santayana – [Commitment]
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana – [Love]
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
George Santayana – [Institutions]
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana – [Pride]
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
George Santayana – [Wives]
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana – [Conversation]
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana – [Spirit and Spirituality]
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 – [Theater]
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
George Santayana – [Space]
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana – [Emotions]
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana – [Skepticism]
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 – [Death and Dying]
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
George Santayana – [Sympathy]
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
George Santayana – [Food and Eating]
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana – [Past]
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