The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. – George Santayana
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. – George Santayana
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. – George Santayana
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. – George Santayana
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. – George Santayana
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. – George Santayana
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. – George Santayana
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. – George Santayana
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. – George Santayana
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. – George Santayana
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. – George Santayana
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. – George Santayana
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. – George Santayana
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. – George Santayana
By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all. – George Santayana
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. – George Santayana
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. – George Santayana
