George Santayana Quotes - Page 6
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
