137 Quotations by George Santayana
- 41. It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

- 42. It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of th ...

- 43. It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on, without enquiry and almost at first sight ...

- 44. It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

- 45. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The g ...

- 46. It is wisdom to believe the heart.

- 47. It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

- 48. It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

- 49. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

- 50. Knowledge of the possible is the beginning of happiness.

- 51. Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

- 52. Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sens ...

- 53. Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

- 54. Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

- 55. Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happi ...

- 56. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his ...

- 57. Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware ...

- 58. Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware ...

- 59. Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to it ...

- 60. Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, an ...

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