The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. – George Santayana
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. – George Santayana
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. – George Santayana
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. – George Santayana
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud. – George Santayana
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. – George Santayana
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. – George Santayana
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. – George Santayana
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. – George Santayana
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. – George Santayana
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. – George Santayana
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
The Bible is literature, not dogma. – George Santayana
Depression is rage spread thin. – George Santayana
Oaths are the fossils of piety. – George Santayana
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. – George Santayana
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. – George Santayana
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
