574 Quotes by George Santayana

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification