George Santayana

By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer…

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas…

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection…

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth…

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who…

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part…

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have…

Music is essentially useless, as is life…

The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact…

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others…

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness…

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who…

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency…

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean…

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography…