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13535 quotesReligions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
Conscience
George Santayana
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
Skepticism
George Santayana
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
Society
George Santayana
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Body
George Santayana
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
Disease
George Santayana
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
Arts and Artists
George Santayana
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Family
George Santayana
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Education
George Santayana
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Fame
George Santayana
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
Commitment
George Santayana
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
Institutions
George Santayana
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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
Conversation
George Santayana
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
Spirit and Spirituality
George Santayana
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
Space
George Santayana
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
Emotions
George Santayana
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
Sympathy
George Santayana
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
Food and Eating
George Santayana
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Past
George Santayana
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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Men and Women
George Santayana
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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Time and Time Management
Richard Ben Sapir
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The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Problems
Alan Saporta
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Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
Miracles
David Sarnoff
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The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
Apathy
David Sarnoff
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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
Mind
David Sarnoff
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Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Finance
Robert W. Sarnoff
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun