George Santayana Quotes & Sayings (Page 11)

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

“The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.”

“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.”

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

“Oaths are the fossils of piety.”

“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.”

“It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.”

“Music is essentially useless, as is life.”

“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.”

“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.”