574 Quotes by George Santayana

Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Columbus gave the world another world.

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.