George Santayana Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”

“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”

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

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

“The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.”

“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.”

“Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.”

“America is a young country with an old mentality.”

“Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.”

“Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.”