574 Quotes by George Santayana

The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests.

It is not society’s fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child’s eyes.

Despite past philosophic errors separating mind and body, we now know better. The mind is the brain in action; the brain is an organ of the body. Body, action, and thinking flow along identical biological conduits. The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and regard of its operation.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginative fitness of its faith and knows instinctively that, in such a manner, imaginative fitness is all that can be required.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.