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George Santayana Quotes about Age

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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

George Santayana
Inspiration, Age, Youth
George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

George Santayana
Men, Age, Alive
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.326, Indiana University Press

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

George Santayana
Reflection, Age, Doe
George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

George Santayana
Adventure, Age, Spirit
George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

George Santayana
Effort, Mind, Age
George Santayana (1932). “The Life of Reason”, p.74, Library of Alexandria

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

George Santayana
Hands, Environmental, Age
George Santayana (1906). “Sonnets and Other Verses”

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