574 Quotes by George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.