574 Quotes by George Santayana

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.