Quotes 341 till 360 of 1785.
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
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Common people do not pray; they only beg.
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Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
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Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
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Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
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Consciousness is a very superficial thing.
Source: Letters of G. Santayana -
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
Source: Collected Letters (1926-195007) -
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
Source: The life of reason (1906)
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