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

- George Santayana

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

- George Santayana

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

- George Santayana

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

- George Santayana

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

- George Santayana

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

- George Santayana

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

- George Santayana

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

- George Santayana

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

- George Santayana

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

- George Santayana

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

- George Santayana

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

- George Santayana

Sanity is madness put to good use.

- George Santayana

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

- George Santayana

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

- George Santayana

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

- George Santayana

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

- George Santayana

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

- George Santayana

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

- George Santayana

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

- George Santayana