Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. – George Santayana
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. – George Santayana
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. – George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. – George Santayana
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. – George Santayana
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
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. – George Santayana
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana
