Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

George Santayana

Related Quotes:

" The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. "

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 passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. "

George Santayana

" Music is essentially useless, as is life. "

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

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

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

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

George Santayana

" Sanity is madness put to good use. "

George Santayana

" Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "

George Santayana

" It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. "

George Santayana

" To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. "

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

" It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. "

George Santayana

" The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. "

George Santayana

" The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. "

George Santayana

" Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. "

George Santayana

" It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. "

George Santayana

" There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. "

George Santayana

" Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. "

George Santayana

" The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. "

George Santayana

" Depression is rage spread thin. "

George Santayana

" An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. "

George Santayana

" Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. "

George Santayana

" Habit is stronger than reason. "

George Santayana

" My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. "

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

" All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. "

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