Top 118 Quotes by George Santayana

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.