Philosophy Quote by George Santayana — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.”

“The muffled syllables that Nature speaks”

“The worship of power is an old religion.”

“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”

“Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural faculty and moral harmony; afterwards, gladly relinquishing zone after zone of vegetation, and letting the snow-peak of integrity rise to what height it may.”

“With you a part of me hath passed away;”

“Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.”

“The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.”

“For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical will. All are horribly wrong. More than anything, man seeks meaning in his life. And in that meaning, he seeks superiority over others.”

“I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.”

“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’”

“Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have to know what thought thinks. Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but like the earth precedes the tree, but like the world precedes the man, but like the sea precedes the view of the sea, life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. - Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.”