George Santayana Quotes

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

Compassion takes imagination.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

You have to think with the heart.

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

A loving heart is an inventive one.

The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.