George Santayana Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

• When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.

  George Santayana

  Men, Eulogy, Quality

  Benedictus de Spinoza, George Santayana (1910). “Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione".”

• Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

  George Santayana

  Time, Knowing, Eternity

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

• All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

  George Santayana

  Time, Men, Doctrine

  George Santayana (1936). “The philosophy of Santayana”, Random House

• The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Mean, Quality

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.72, Sheba Blake Publishing

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