George Santayana Quotes
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
Sanity is madness put to good use.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
