We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together. George Santayana More Quotes by George Santayana More Quotes From George Santayana All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg. George Santayana break-a-leg left-behind legs The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. George Santayana may honey long A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel. George Santayana regard imagination The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes. George Santayana and-love eye world It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. George Santayana elude depth grace At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat. George Santayana philosopher pilots may The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations. George Santayana may character travel It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility George Santayana unhappiness easy men An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there. George Santayana artist may museums ...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action. George Santayana common-sense dark dream For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing. George Santayana atheism choices matter The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms. George Santayana reform intelligent use Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. George Santayana political government mean To turn events into ideas is the function of literature. George Santayana events literature ideas Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. George Santayana vitality despair reason What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. George Santayana being-true may facts Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here! George Santayana grace here-i-am hands All spiritual interests are supported by animal life. George Santayana interest spiritual animal To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried. George Santayana drink spirit drinking Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. George Santayana fate justice world
