Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
George Santayana

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
George Santayana

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
George Santayana

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
George Santayana

Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
George Santayana

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
George Santayana

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
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