Top 400 George Santayana Quotes (2024 Update)
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George Santayana Quote: “A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.”

401. “A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.”

— George Santayana

George Santayana Quote: “It is a great bond to dislike the same things.”

402. “It is a great bond to dislike the same things.”

— George Santayana

George Santayana Quote: “Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.”

403. “Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.”

— George Santayana

George Santayana Quote: “In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.”

404. “In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.”

— George Santayana

George Santayana Quote: “To the uninitiated they have merely murmured, with a pitying smile and a wave of the hand: What! are you still troubled by that? Or if compelled to be so scholastic as to labour the point they have explained, as usual, that oneself cannot be the absolute because the idea of oneself, to arise, must be contrasted with other ideas. Therefore, you cannot well have the idea of a world in which nothing appears but the idea of yourself.”

405. “To the uninitiated they have merely murmured, with a pitying smile and a wave of the hand: What! are you still troubled by that? Or if compelled to be so scholastic as to labour the point they have explained, as usual, that oneself cannot be the absolute because the idea of oneself, to arise, must be contrasted with other ideas. Therefore, you cannot well have the idea of a world in which nothing appears but the idea of yourself.”

— George Santayana

George Santayana Quote: “It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.”

406. “It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.”

— George Santayana

George Santayana Quote: “Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.”

407. “Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.”

— George Santayana

George Santayana Quote: “Life is an art not to be learned by observation.”

408. “Life is an art not to be learned by observation.”

— George Santayana

George Santayana Quote: “Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.”

409. “Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.”

— George Santayana

George Santayana Quote: “The ultimate intuitions on which ethics rests are not debatable, for they are not opinions we hazard but preferences we feel; and it can neither be correct nor incorrect that we feel them.”

410. “The ultimate intuitions on which ethics rests are not debatable, for they are not opinions we hazard but preferences we feel; and it can neither be correct nor incorrect that we feel them.”

— George Santayana

George Santayana Quote: “Science is the response to the demand for information, and in it we ask for the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.”

411. “Science is the response to the demand for information, and in it we ask for the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.”

— George Santayana

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