George Santayana

Birth: 1863-12-16 , Madrid

Death: 1952-09-26 , Roma

George Santayana was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. His works cover a wide range of topics, including aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, and political philosophy. Santayana is known for his elegant prose and his philosophical skepticism, which led him to question many traditional beliefs.

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The truth, my friends, is not eloquent, except unspoken; its vast shadow lends eloquence to our sparks of thought as they die into it.

Even under the most favourable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its centre.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral

We go right enough, darling, if we go wrong together!

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

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Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863-1952), known as George Santayana, was born in Madrid, Spain, but spent most of his life in the United States and Europe. He was a prominent philosopher, poet, and literary critic. Educated at Harvard, Santayana became an influential figure in American thought, though often critical of its pragmatic tendencies. His philosophy, known as naturalism, sought to explain reality without recourse to supernatural causes. Notable works include "The Sense of Beauty," "The Life of Reason," and "Persons and Places." His lyrical prose and his reflections on culture, religion, and the human condition continue to be studied. He died in Rome, Italy.