Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
George SantayanaTags: nature
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
George SantayanaSince the days of Descartes it has been a conception familiar to philosophers that every visible event in nature might be explained by previous visible events, and that all the motions, for instance, of the tongue in speech, or of the hand in painting, might have merely physical causes. If consciousness is thus accessory to life and not essential to it, the race of man might have existed upon the earth and acquired all the arts necessary for its subsistence without possessing a single sensation, idea, or emotion. Natural selection might have secured the survival of those automata which made useful reactions upon their environment. An instinct would have been developed, dangers would have been shunned without being feared, and injuries avenged without being felt.
George SantayanaThe bible is literature, not dogma.
George SantayanaNothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George SantayanaTags: inspirational
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George SantayanaOnly the dead have seen the end of war.
George SantayanaTo knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George SantayanaA child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayanalove make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
George SantayanaTags: humor philosophy
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