574 Quotes by George Santayana

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.