Quotes by George Santayana

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

#George Santayana

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

#George Santayana

Sanity is madness put to good use.

#George Santayana

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

#George Santayana

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by...

#George Santayana

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

#George Santayana

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

#George Santayana

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

#George Santayana

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

#George Santayana

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

#George Santayana

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

#George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

#George Santayana