One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
George Santayana

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

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
George Santayana

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
George Santayana

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
George Santayana

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
George Santayana

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George Santayana

Sanity is a madness put to good use.
George Santayana

Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
George Santayana

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana

The Bible is literature, not dogma.
George Santayana

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana

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

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