Quote

One real world is enough.

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
Enough
Real
World
Reality

More quotes by George Santayana

Image
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
Image
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
George Santayana
Image
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
Image
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
George Santayana
Image
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
George Santayana
Image
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
George Santayana
Image
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
Image
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
George Santayana
Image
Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
George Santayana
Image
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
George Santayana
Image
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
George Santayana
Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
George Santayana
Image
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
George Santayana
Image
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
George Santayana