Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. George Santayana Friendship
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. George Santayana Courage
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. George Santayana Men
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. George Santayana Religion
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. George Santayana Truth
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. George Santayana Imagination
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 Peace
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. George Santayana Patriotism
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. George Santayana Happiness
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana Religion
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 Knowledge
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. George Santayana History
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. George Santayana Respect