We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together. George Santayana More Quotes by George Santayana More Quotes From George Santayana Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience. George Santayana bars spirit justice When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone. George Santayana together steps knowledge It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. George Santayana littles joy happiness Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works. George Santayana freedom artist interesting Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. George Santayana sagacity personality character All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. George Santayana sad soul life There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. George Santayana atheism would-be doubt Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. George Santayana ignorance science facts The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. George Santayana ruins optimism evil Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. George Santayana philosopher fierce too-much If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. George Santayana long-ago pain should I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. George Santayana truth believe lying We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on. George Santayana names goes-on action Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith. George Santayana religious faith science Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things. George Santayana glimpse experience causes I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me. George Santayana fantasy real imagination A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. George Santayana speech reflection dream Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification. George Santayana experience done sake Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. George Santayana eternity knowing time Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun. George Santayana truth memories father
