George Santayana Quotes about Optimism

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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

George Santayana

Powerful, America, Optimism

George Santayana (1921). “Character & Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America”

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

George Santayana

Evil, Optimism, Ruins

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.599, Indiana University Press

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

George Santayana

Dream, Optimism, Body

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.471, 谷月社

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

George Santayana

Optimism, Feelings, Religion

George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing