George Santayana Quotes And Sayings

Emotion Is Primarily About Nothing And Much Of It Remains About Nothing To The End.

The Diseases Which Destroy A Man Are No Less Natural Than The Instincts Which Preserve Him.

All Thought Is Naught But A Footnote To Plato.

Let A Man Once Overcome His Selfish Terror At His Own Infinitude, And His Infinitude Is, In One Sense, Overcome.

Advertising Is The Modern Substitute For Argument; Its Function Is To Make The Worse Appear The Better.

The Difficult Is That Which Can Be Done Immediately; The Impossible That Which Takes A Little Longer.

Almost Every Wise Saying Has An Opposite One, No Less Wise, To Balance It.

Fashion Is Something Barbarous, For It Produces Innovation Without Reason And Imitation Without Benefit.

Music Is A Means Of Giving Form To Our Inner Feelings, Without Attaching Them To Events Or Objects In The World.

The Degree In Which A Poet's Imagination Dominates Reality Is, In The End, The Exact Measure Of His Importance And Dignity.

Perhaps The Only True Dignity Of Man Is His Capacity To Despise Himself.

The Word Experience Is Like A Shrapnel Shell, And Bursts Into A Thousand Meanings.

The Love Of All-inclusiveness Is As Dangerous In Philosophy As In Art.

Oxford, The Paradise Of Dead Philosophies.

Language Is Like Money, Without Which Specific Relative Values May Well Exist And Be Felt, But Cannot Be Reduced To A Common Denominator.

To Know What People Really Think, Pay Regard To What They Do, Rather Than What They Say.

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.

The Young Man Who Has Not Wept Is A Savage, And The Older Man Who Will Not Laugh Is A Fool.