"The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses and suggests" ~ George Santayana ♥22SharePinTweet0 Shares
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten" ~ George Santayana ♥21SharePinTweet1 Shares
"To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be." ~ George Santayana ♥40SharePinTweet0 SharesLove Quotes
"Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject." ~ George Santayana ♥22SharePinTweet0 Shares
"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor." ~ George Santayana ♥21SharePinTweet0 Shares
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what." ~ George Santayana ♥35SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
"The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard." ~ George Santayana ♥22SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better." ~ George Santayana ♥21SharePinTweet0 Shares
"love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers." ~ George Santayana ♥34SharePinTweet1 SharesLove Quotes
"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others." ~ George Santayana ♥29SharePinTweet0 SharesLife 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 ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." ~ George Santayana ♥34SharePinTweet2 SharesHappinessPositive
"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said." ~ George Santayana ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books." ~ George Santayana ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness." ~ George Santayana ♥32SharePinTweet1 SharesHappiness
"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world." ~ George Santayana ♥30SharePinTweet0 SharesPositive
"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." ~ George Santayana ♥21SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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 ♥31SharePinTweet1 SharesLove 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 ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. Scepticism and Animal Faith, 1923 " ~ George Santayana ♥29SharePinTweet2 SharesLife Quotes
" Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." ~ George Santayana ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim." ~ George Santayana ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. Persons and Places: The Middle Span, 1945" ~ George Santayana ♥164SharePinTweet0 SharesFriendshipWomen
" The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.The Life of Reason, 1905-1906" ~ George Santayana ♥173SharePinTweet2 SharesFriendshipLife QuotesWomen
" An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. The Life of Reason, 1905-1906" ~ George Santayana ♥26SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament." ~ George Santayana ♥25SharePinTweet2 SharesLife Quotes
