137 Quotations by George Santayana
- 101. The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under w ...
- 102. The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in t ...
- 103. The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest i ...
- 104. The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
- 105. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, ...
- 106. The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
- 107. The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing t ...
- 108. The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old ag ...
- 109. The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live witho ...
- 110. The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
- 111. The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all ...
- 112. The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
- 113. The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures ...
- 114. The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the med ...
- 115. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
- 116. The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
- 117. The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- 118. The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot thr ...
- 119. The young man who has not wept is a savage,
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- 120. There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to pres ...
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