Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. G
  4. George Santayana
  5. Inspirational

George Santayana Quotes about Inspirational

All George Santayana Quotes Age Ambition Anxiety Art Atheism Authority Balance Beauty Change Character Chastity Children Common Sense Conformity Contemplation Country Criticism Death Dignity Dying Earth Education Effort Environment Eternity Evil Evolution Experience Faith Fate Feelings Freedom Friendship Giving God Grace Growth Happiness Harmony Hate Heart Heaven History Imagination Immortality Impulse Inspiration Inspirational quotes Intuition Joy Judgment Justice Knowledge Language Liberty Life Love Lying Madness Memories Motivational Music Nature Opportunity Optimism Pain Passion Past Peace Philosophy Pleasure Progress Quality Reality Reflection Religion Science Simple Life Simplicity Skepticism Soul Spirituality Study Stupidity Suffering Surrender Time Truth Understanding Universe Vision War Wisdom Youth
A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Motivational, Country

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Goal, Effort
The Life of Reason vol. 1, introduction (1905)

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Common Sense, Nonsense
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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

George Santayana
Inspirational, Life, Birthday
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Family, Brother
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.23, MIT Press

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Real, Share
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.458, Indiana University Press

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
Inspirational, Life, Peace
George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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

George Santayana
Inspirational, Funny, Men
"The Works of George Santayana".

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Inspired, Conditions
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.141, Рипол Классик

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

George Santayana
Inspirational, Opportunity, Imagination
George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

You May Also Like: