Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. – George Santayana
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. – George Santayana
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. – George Santayana
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. – George Santayana
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. – George Santayana
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. – George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. – George Santayana
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. – George Santayana
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
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. – George Santayana
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. – George Santayana
