574 Quotes by George Santayana

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise.