Famous George Santayana Quotes

  • Sanity is a madness put to good uses. – George Santayana

    Sanity is a madness put to good uses.– George Santayana

  • The man who is not permitted to own is owned. – George Santayana

    The man who is not permitted to own is owned.– George Santayana

  • The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. – George Santayana

    The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.– George Santayana

  • The wisest mind hath something yet to learn. – George Santayana

    The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.– George Santayana

  • Depression is rage spread thin. – George Santayana

    Depression is rage spread thin.– George Santayana

  • That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. – George Santayana

    That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.– George Santayana

  • Music is essentially useless, as life is. – George Santayana

    Music is essentially useless, as life is.– George Santayana

  • The earth has its music for those who will listen. – George Santayana

    The earth has its music for those who will listen.– George Santayana

  • Consciousness is a born hermit. – George Santayana

    Consciousness is a born hermit.– George Santayana

  • Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. – George Santayana

    Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.– George Santayana