George Santayana Quotes

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George Santayana

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : December 16, 1863

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

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.

George Santayana

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

George Santayana

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

George Santayana

Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

George Santayana

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

George Santayana

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

George Santayana

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

George Santayana

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

George Santayana