George Santayana Quotes about Vision

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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

George Santayana

Believe, Thinking, Vision

George Santayana (2013). “Scepticism and Animal Faith”, p.201, Courier Corporation

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

George Santayana

Vision, Intelligence, Awe

George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.19, Library of Alexandria

Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana

Men, Soul, Vision

'Little Essays' (1920) 'Ideal Immortality'