George Santayana Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old George Santayana quotes, George Santayana sayings, and George Santayana proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. George Santayana
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. George Santayana
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. George Santayana
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. George Santayana
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. George Santayana
The worship of power is an old religion. George Santayana
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. George Santayana
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned George Santayana
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. George Santayana
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. George Santayana
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors. George Santayana
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods. George Santayana
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. George Santayana
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. George Santayana
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure. George Santayana
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain and a positive crime in the statesman. George Santayana
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what is or what it means can never be said. George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. George Santayana
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. George Santayana
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.” George Santayana
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity. George Santayana