George Santayana Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”

“Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”

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

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

“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”

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

“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.”

“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”

“Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”