Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana efficaciousmilitaryreligion Change image and share on social
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. George Santayana copedenyignore Change image and share on social
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana condemnpastremember Change image and share on social
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. George Santayana artefforteternal Change image and share on social
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. George Santayana caricaturecontradictionmockery Change image and share on social
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. George Santayana altogetherapedrunkard Change image and share on social
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. George Santayana easylibertinemake Change image and share on social
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. George Santayana controldreadfulgeography Change image and share on social
