Quotes from George Santayana

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.