574 Quotes by George Santayana

There is no right government except good government.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

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

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.