Famous Quotes

Quotes by George Santayana

• That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
• The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
• The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
• The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
• The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
• The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
• The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
• The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
• The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
• The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
• The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
• Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
• To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.