Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. The whole world is doing things.
-- George Santayana
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
-- George Santayana
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
-- George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
-- George Santayana
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child
-- George Santayana
A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.
-- George Santayana
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
-- George Santayana
Sanity is madness put to good uses.
-- George Santayana
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
-- George Santayana
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
-- George Santayana
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
-- George Santayana
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
-- George Santayana
People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.
-- George Santayana
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
-- George Santayana
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
-- George Santayana
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana
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