Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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
Work
Patience
Things
Endure
Men
Indeed
Motley
Opinion
Bred
Religion
Convention
Comes
Conventions
Must
Poetic
Heart
Closer
More quotes by George Santayana
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
George Santayana
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
George Santayana
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
George Santayana
He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
George Santayana
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
Man's most serious activity is play.
George Santayana
The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
George Santayana
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
George Santayana
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
George Santayana
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
George Santayana
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
George Santayana
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
George Santayana
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
George Santayana
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
George Santayana
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
George Santayana
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
George Santayana
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
George Santayana
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
George Santayana
