574 Quotes by George Santayana

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America