George Santayana Quotes about Religion

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Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

George Santayana

Imagination, Religion, Atheism

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

George Santayana

Miracle, Religion, Causes

The Ethics of Spinoza introduction (1910)

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Religion, Advertising, Argument

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

George Santayana

Love Life, Religion, Consciousness

George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.37, The Floating Press

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

Passion, Knowing, Religion

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.159, 谷月社

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

George Santayana

Men, Religion, Atheism

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.450, Indiana University Press

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

George Santayana

Religion, Fairy Tale, Tales

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.8, Indiana University Press

Fear first created the gods.

George Santayana

Religion, Atheism, Firsts

George Santayana (1932). “The Life of Reason”, p.1222, Library of Alexandria

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

George Santayana

Heart, Men, Religion

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

George Santayana

Military, Victory, Religion

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.39, 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