George Santayana Quotes About Conformity

Quotes about: Conformity

• 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

  Running, Science, Errors

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

• Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Soul, Conformity

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.270, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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”

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