Quotes by George Santayana

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

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.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

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