George Santayana Thinking Quotations

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

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

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

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

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.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.