3 George Santayana Quotes on Reality

George Santayana quotes on reality

8. 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.

32. The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

46. Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.