George Santayana Quotes About Life
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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.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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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.
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
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All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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It is the acme of life to understand life.
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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George Santayana
- Born: December 16, 1863
- Died: September 26, 1952
- Occupation: Philosopher
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