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. View more images...
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. View more images...
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper - George Santayana. View more images...
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all. - George Santayana. View more images...
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana. View more images...
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself - George Santayana. View more images...
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. - George Santayana. View more images...
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. - George Santayana. View more images...
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. - George Santayana. View more images...
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana. View more images...
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. - George Santayana. View more images...
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. - George Santayana. View more images...
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles. - George Santayana. View more images...
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. - George Santayana. View more images...
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. - George Santayana. View more images...