“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.” George Santayana
“Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.” George Santayana
“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.” George Santayana
“The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.” George Santayana
“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.” George Santayana
“The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.” George Santayana
“The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.” George Santayana
“The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.” George Santayana
“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.” George Santayana
“There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.” George Santayana
“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.” George Santayana
“To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.” George Santayana
“Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.” George Santayana
“I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.” George Santayana
“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.” George Santayana
“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.” George Santayana
“Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.” George Santayana
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.” George Santayana
“It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.” George Santayana
