George Santayana Quotes

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

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.

Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Consciousness is a born hermit.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.

The earth has its music for those who will listen.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.

To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.

If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

Depression is rage spread thin.

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.