Quotes by George Santayana

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

#George Santayana

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

#George Santayana

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

#George Santayana

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

#George Santayana

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or...

#George Santayana

Depression is rage spread thin.

#George Santayana

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer...

#George Santayana

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart...

#George Santayana

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

#George Santayana

America is a young country with an old mentality.

#George Santayana

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

#George Santayana

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

#George Santayana