574 Quotes by George Santayana

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

Fear first created the gods.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things...

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.