574 Quotes by George Santayana

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.