George Santayana Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.”

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

“The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.”

“Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.”

“The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.”

“The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.”

“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”

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

“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”

“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.”