George Santayana
George Santayana
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Originally from Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States from the age of eight and identified himself as an American, although he always kept a valid Spanish passport. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters. At the age of forty-eight, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth16 December 1863
CityMadrid, Spain
CountrySpain
Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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.
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors
England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.