“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”
George Santayana“The earth has its music for those who will listen.”
George Santayana“The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.”
George Santayana“Consciousness is a born hermit.”
George Santayana, The Life of Reason and Other Works by George Santayana“In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.”
George Santayana“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.”
George Santayana“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”
George Santayana“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
George Santayana“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
George Santayana“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
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