The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
– George Santayana
“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”
– George Santayana
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
– George Santayana
Sanity is madness put to good uses.
– George Santayana
Sanity is madness put to good use.
– George Santayana
Sanity is madness put to good uses.
– George Santayana
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
– 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
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
– George Santayana
He gave the world another world.
– George Santayana
Columbus found a world, and had no chart,Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.
– George Santayana
Columbus found a world, and had no chart,Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.
– George Santayana
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
– 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
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
– George Santayana
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
– George Santayana
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
– George Santayana
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
– George Santayana
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
– George Santayana
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
– George Santayana