George Santayana

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

—George Santayana

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

—George Santayana

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

—George Santayana

Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

—George Santayana

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

—George Santayana

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

—George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

—George Santayana

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

—George Santayana

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

—George Santayana

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

—George Santayana

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

—George Santayana

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

—George Santayana

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

—George Santayana

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

—George Santayana

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

—George Santayana