George Santayana Quotes — Page 20

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.”

Truth Circumstances Mortals

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science”

Running Science Errors

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Confident

“Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.”

Men Importance

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Philosophical

“Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.”

World Faith

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Wise

“Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.”

Men Long Speech

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Philosophical

“In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.”

Authority Oneself Tendencies

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Philosophical

“Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”

Age Spirit Adventure

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Philosophical

“It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”

Simple Philosophy Facts

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Spiritual

“Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.”

Life Honor Anxiety

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Calm

“I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.”

Life Beautiful Aggravation

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Philosophical

“Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.”

Beautiful Pain Women

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Hopeful

“Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.”

Mean Order Profound

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