Quote

Docility is the observable half of reason.

George Santayana

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Docility
Observable
Opinion
Half
Reason

More quotes by George Santayana

Image
It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
George Santayana
Image
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
George Santayana
Image
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
George Santayana
Image
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
George Santayana
Image
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
George Santayana
Image
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana
Image
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
George Santayana
Image
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
George Santayana
Image
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
George Santayana
Image
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
George Santayana
Image
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana
Image
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
George Santayana
Image
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Image
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
George Santayana
Image
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
George Santayana
Image
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George Santayana
Image
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana
Image
Fear first created the gods.
George Santayana
Image
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
George Santayana
Image
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.
George Santayana