George Santayana Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, Buddhist, Men

• Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

  George Santayana

  Death, Evil, Dying

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.174, MIT Press

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

  George Santayana

  Men, Evil, Savages

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.57, 谷月社

• The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

  George Santayana

  Evil, Optimism, Ruins

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.599, Indiana University Press

• The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

  George Santayana

  Family, Race, Class

  George Santayana (1954). “The Life of Reason: Or, The Phases of Human Progress”, p.184, Prabhat Prakashan

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