Quotes - George Santayana

America is a young country with an old mentality.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous,
since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952),
Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2

Happiness is the only sanction of life;
where happiness fails, existence remains
a mad and lamentable experiment.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952),
Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and
to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952),
Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4

Matters of religion should never be matters of
controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for
knowing so human a passion.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have
an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952),
Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4