George Santayana Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.”

“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.”

“A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.”

“Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.”

“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”

“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”

“All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”