574 Quotes by George Santayana

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Love makes us poets, and the approach of death should makes us philosophers

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

Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

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