What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. George Santayana More Quotes by George Santayana More Quotes From George Santayana For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned George Santayana investing fashion ideas Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. George Santayana hobbies individuality design It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana appreciate marriage patience The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. George Santayana passion pride birthday It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. George Santayana pleasant wells can-do Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. George Santayana progress quality speak It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. George Santayana passion revenge thinking Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. George Santayana despise dignity men Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. George Santayana wisdom wise happiness Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. George Santayana confusion names order The earth has music for those who listen. George Santayana music encouragement art The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger. George Santayana stranger christian country The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. George Santayana friendship world The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. George Santayana effort art interesting The living have never shown me how to live. George Santayana Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice. George Santayana rebellious genius vices The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science George Santayana errors running science There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity. George Santayana birth dark death Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? George Santayana thoughtful philosophy art Habit is stronger than reason. George Santayana stronger opinion smoking
