Quotes by George Santayana
Sanity is madness put to good use.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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.
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.
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
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.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
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.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
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.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
