George Santayana Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952
Birthday: December 16
Death: September 26
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.
source: George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”
topic: Ignorance, Animal, Expression, Retaining
