Quotes by George Santayana
Sanity is madness put to good uses.
Santayana, George
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that "a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.
Santayana, George
Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
Santayana, George
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Santayana, George
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Santayana, George
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Santayana, George
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Santayana, George
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all
Santayana, George
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Santayana, George