George Santayana Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• Habit is stronger than reason.

  George Santayana

  Smoking, Stronger, Opinion

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana: Interpretations of the poetry and religion. Hamlet. Shelley. Dickens. Tragic philosophy”

• The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Perfection, Missing

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.77, Courier Corporation

• As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

  George Santayana

  Men, Lost Friendship, Widows

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

• Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

  George Santayana

  Men, Comforting, Opinion

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

• Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

• Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet.
  
  Habit is stronger than reason.

  George Santayana

  Stronger, Reason, Habit

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