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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

George Santayana

Society

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

George Santayana

Chastity

Skepticism

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Santayana

Madness

Sanity

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

George Santayana

Being

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

Past

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

Death

Cure

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

George Santayana

Miser