George Santayana

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. ↗

— George Santayana

#last #long #soul #world

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. ↗

— George Santayana

#naught #plato #thought

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradict #endeavor #fair #friend #him

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

— George Santayana

#bid #divine #faith #heart #led

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. ↗

— George Santayana

#beyond #disposition #him #kindly #man

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. ↗

— George Santayana

#each #enabling #fortifying #help #human

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

— George Santayana

#draw #empiricism #experience #lead #most

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. ↗

— George Santayana

#always #another #friends #friendship #mind

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. ↗

— George Santayana

#believe #between #dualism #facts #general

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. ↗

— George Santayana

#been #could #cured #long #pain