Quotes from George Santayana

Let Your Faith Be Bigger Than Your Fear!

Letting go of discouragement is no more difficult than holding on to it; and letting go is so much more empowering.

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

Love yourself! It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out!

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

Never assume that loud is strong and quiet is weak?

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

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.

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

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

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

The worship of power is an old religion.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The earth has its music for those who will listen.