George Santayana Quotes


Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.