574 Quotes by George Santayana
"To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful."
"If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation."
"It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs."
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject."
"Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost."
"Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love."
"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."