“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.” George Santayana
“A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.” George Santayana
“Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.” George Santayana
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.” 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.” George Santayana
“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.” George Santayana
“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.” George Santayana
“Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.” George Santayana
“Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.” George Santayana
“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.” George Santayana
“Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.” George Santayana
“Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.” George Santayana
“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.” George Santayana
“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.” George Santayana
“It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.” George Santayana
“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.” George Santayana
“Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.” George Santayana
