Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
Skeptical
Skepticism
Dignity
Internet
Like
Relinquished
Sceptic
Chastity
Readily
More quotes by George Santayana
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
George Santayana
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
George Santayana
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
George Santayana
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
Art is a delayed echo.
George Santayana
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
George Santayana
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
George Santayana
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
George Santayana
Order, for a liberal, means only peace and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.
George Santayana
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
George Santayana
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
George Santayana
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
George Santayana
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
George Santayana
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
George Santayana
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
George Santayana
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
George Santayana
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
George Santayana
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
George Santayana
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
George Santayana
