574 Quotes by George Santayana

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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.

Man's most serious activity is play.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

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

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.