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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
By George Santayana
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
By George Santayana
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
By George Santayana
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
By George Santayana
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards
By 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.
By George Santayana
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
By 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.
By George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
By George Santayana
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
By George Santayana
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
By George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
By George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
By George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
By George Santayana
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
By 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.
By George Santayana
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
By George Santayana
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
By George Santayana
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
By George Santayana
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
By George Santayana
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
By George Santayana