Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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
Body
Carrie
Persons
Bodies
Everything
Evolution
Thoughts
Progress
Nations
Tide
Less
Tides
Science
Carries
More quotes by George Santayana
There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
George Santayana
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
George Santayana
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
George Santayana
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana
The earth has music for those who listen.
George Santayana
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
George Santayana
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
George Santayana
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
George Santayana
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
George Santayana
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
George Santayana
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
George Santayana
Beware of long arguments and long beards.
George Santayana
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
George Santayana
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
George Santayana
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
George Santayana
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana
