" Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. "

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4 US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. "

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8 US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Sanity is a madness put to good use. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. "

George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3 US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. "

George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. "

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. "

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3 US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. "

George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) “Ideal Immortality” US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" 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 US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. "

George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4 US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Our character…is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. "

George Santayana, “The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis” US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

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