George Santayana Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  George Santayana

  Life, Beautiful, Aggravation

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

• To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

• One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  George Santayana

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

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

• The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

  George Santayana

  Life, Believe, Long

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.60, Indiana University Press

• The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

  George Santayana

  Life, Kindness, Philosophy

• Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

  George Santayana

  Life, Art, Peace

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.107, MIT Press

• The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

  George Santayana

  Life, Laughter, Confused

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

• All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

  George Santayana

  Life, Sad, Soul

  "Dialogues in Limbo" by George Santayana, (Ch. 3, p. 62), 1926.

• Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

  George Santayana

  Life, Predicaments, Spectacles

  Articles and Essays

• Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

• Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

  George Santayana

  Life, Men, Made

• Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

  George Santayana

  Life, Anxiety, Honor

• It is the acme of life to understand life.

  George Santayana

  Life

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.143, Рипол Классик

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