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George Santayana Quotes

Spanish - Philosopher | December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

George Santayana

Man Simplicity Spirit Been Foe

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana

Children Experience Memory Parents

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

George Santayana

Bible Literature Dogma

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

George Santayana

Impossible Done Difficult Little

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

George Santayana

Men Wise Speak Fools Wise Men

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

George Santayana

Wisdom Disillusionment

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana

Truth Free Truth Is Loved Cruel Who

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

George Santayana

Man Him Natural Destroy Instincts

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

George Santayana

Dreams Truth Dreamer Dream Know Out

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

George Santayana

Death Enjoy Birth Cure Save

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

George Santayana

Hope Children Man Better Possessions

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

George Santayana

Passion Revenge Think Devil Force

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