Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. George Santayana More Quotes by George Santayana More Quotes From George Santayana Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. George Santayana education success happiness An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana design dream art To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. George Santayana moral careers education Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies. George Santayana equilibrium idiocy universe Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely. George Santayana discipline mind believe Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. George Santayana space god heaven If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. George Santayana artist unhappy doe There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books. George Santayana book hands interesting Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. George Santayana dignity understanding wisdom Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good. George Santayana conformity nature soul There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty. George Santayana adequate principles mind Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. George Santayana awe intelligence vision Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine George Santayana light faith knowledge love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. George Santayana philosopher love death 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 insightful atheist men Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light. George Santayana light jewels may The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought. George Santayana cynical self mistake We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms. George Santayana irrational illusion should-have The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. George Santayana reflection age doe For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. George Santayana hair sleep men
