George Santayana Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

  George Santayana

  Ignorance, Animal, Expression

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

• In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

  George Santayana

  Love, Memories, Passion

• Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

  George Santayana

  Spring, Animal, World

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

• Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

  George Santayana

  Blessed, Animal, Peaceful

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

• Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

  George Santayana

  Animal, Love Is, Divine

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.108, 谷月社

• Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

  George Santayana

  Hate, Animal, Men

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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

  George Santayana

  Fighting, Animal, Men

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

• All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

  George Santayana

  Spiritual, Animal, Interest

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.31, 谷月社

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