George Santayana People Quotations

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

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

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.