George Santayana Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Grain Of Salt, Good Humor

• History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

  George Santayana

  Fear, Lying, People

• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

  George Santayana

  Confused, Lying, Competition

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

• The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Two, Tragedy

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.78, Indiana University Press

• Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

  George Santayana

  Spiritual, Lying, Joy

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

• Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Lying, Men

• I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.338, MIT Press

• To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered what they had heard about astronomy, and the great size and distance and possible habitation of those orbs. ... [We] persuade ourselves that the power of the starry heavens lies in the suggestion of astronomical facts.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.64, Courier Corporation

• Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Hero, Shouting

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

• In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Expression, Choices

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

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