George Santayana Quotes about Heaven

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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.

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

God, Space, Heaven

George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.75, MIT Press

In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.

George Santayana

Justice, Heaven, World

"Interpretations of Poetry and Religion" by George Santayana, (p. 54), 1900.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

George Santayana

Men, Heaven, Ridiculous

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.319, Indiana University Press

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

George Santayana

Heaven, Inner Peace

George Santayana (1936). “The philosophy of Santayana”, Random House

I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.

George Santayana

Echoes, Heaven, Sound

George Santayana (1979). “The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition”, Associated Univ Pr