137 Quotations by George Santayana
- 81. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
- 82. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
- 83. Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
- 84. Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
- 85. Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
- 86. That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subj ...
- 87. That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most i ...
- 88. The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may ...
- 89. The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
- 90. The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in part ...
- 91. The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his ...
- 92. The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer ...
- 93. The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
- 94. The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
- 95. The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at s ...
- 96. The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special se ...
- 97. The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
- 98. The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
- 99. The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
- 100. The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under w ...
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