Explore Quotes by George Santayana

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.