Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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
Foolishness
Earth
Way
World
More quotes by George Santayana
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
George Santayana
The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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
Columbus gave the world another world.
George Santayana
Prayer is not a substitute for work it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
George Santayana
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
George Santayana
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.
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
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
George Santayana
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
George Santayana
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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
Man is a fighting animal his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
George Santayana
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
George Santayana
Fear first created the gods.
George Santayana
One real world is enough.
George Santayana
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
George Santayana
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
George Santayana
