George Santayana Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• 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”

• Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

  George Santayana

  Substance, Causes, Opinion

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2014). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three”, p.305, MIT Press

• To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

  George Santayana

  Self, Useless, Occupation

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.18, Courier Corporation

• Docility is the observable half of reason.

  George Santayana

  Half, Opinion, Reason

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.127, MIT Press

• People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

  George Santayana

  People, Opinion, Convinced

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.113, MIT Press

• Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

  George Santayana

  Hate, Animal, Men

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

• A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

  George Santayana

  Character, Greatness, Men

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.19, The Floating Press

• Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Men, Religion

  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”

• 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

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