Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. "

George Santayana

Related Quotes:

" America is a young country with an old mentality. "

George Santayana

" Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. "

George Santayana

" Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. "

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

" The wisest mind has something yet to learn. "

George Santayana

" Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. "

George Santayana

" By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. "

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

" The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. "

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

" Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. "

George Santayana

" Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. "

George Santayana

" A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. "

George Santayana

" The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. "

George Santayana

" The Soul is the voice of the body's interests. "

George Santayana

" It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. "

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

" Depression is rage spread thin. "

George Santayana

" The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. "

George Santayana

" Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. "

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

" Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. "

George Santayana

" Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. "

George Santayana

" The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. "

George Santayana

" I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. "

George Santayana

" Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. "

George Santayana

" Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. "

George Santayana

" All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. "

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

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

George Santayana