Quotes about George Santayana

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

#George Santayana

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

#George Santayana

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

#George Santayana

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it...

#George Santayana

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve...

#George Santayana

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

#George Santayana

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always...

#George Santayana

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

#George Santayana

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides...

#George Santayana

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

#George Santayana

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what...

#George Santayana

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is...

#George Santayana