Quote

Spirit itself is not human it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

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
Animal
Spirit
Worlds
May
Midst
Human
Spirituality
Humans
Animals
Many
Spring
Life
Exist
World
Beings

More quotes by George Santayana

Image
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
George Santayana
Image
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana
Image
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
George Santayana
Image
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
George Santayana
Image
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
George Santayana
Image
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
Image
Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
George Santayana
Image
What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.
George Santayana
Image
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
George Santayana
Image
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
George Santayana
Image
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana
Image
We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.
George Santayana
Image
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
George Santayana
Image
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
George Santayana
Image
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
George Santayana
Image
Memory itself is an internal rumour.
George Santayana
Image
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
Image
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
George Santayana
Image
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
George Santayana
Image
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
George Santayana