George Santayana Quotes — Page 14

Philosopher, Poet

Creative

“Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”

Mean Recognition Nasty

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Melancholic

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

Men Health Disease

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Courageous

“Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.”

Care Tyrants

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Philosophical

“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.”

Art Philosophy

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Funny

“Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.”

Philosophy Expression Philosophical

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Wise

“Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.”

Men Mean Beautiful

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Optimistic

“America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.”

America Opportunity

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Anxious

“Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.”

Anxiety Shapes

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Philosophical

“Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.”

Life Is Music Useless

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Philosophical

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

Reality Imagination Degrees

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Philosophical

“Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.”

Men Philosophy God

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Philosophical

“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.”

Hype Currency Small Changes

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