Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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
Feelings
Antipathy
Assigned
Strongest
Express
Merely
Conscience
Physical
Moral
More quotes by George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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
The earth has music for those who listen.
George Santayana
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
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
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
George Santayana
Man's most serious activity is play.
George Santayana
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
George Santayana
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
George Santayana
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
George Santayana
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
George Santayana
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.
George Santayana
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
George Santayana
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
George Santayana
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
George Santayana
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana
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
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.
George Santayana
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.
George Santayana
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
