574 Quotes by George Santayana

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Those who cannot remember the past are damned to repeat it

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.