George Santayana Quotes

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

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

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible

A habitual indulgence in the inarticulate is a sure sign of the philosopher who has not learned to think, the poet who has not learned to write, the painter who has not learned to paint, and the impression that has not learned to express itself — all of which are compatible with an immensity of genius in the inexpressible soul.

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

Consciousness is a born hermit.

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

A man is morally free when...he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity

What is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open; to be detatched from the world without being hostile to it; to welcome fugitive beauties and pity fugitive sufferings, without forgetting for a moment how fugitive they are.