George Santayana

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to…

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by…

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces…

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to…

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character…

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could…

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are…

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never…

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art…

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or…

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out…

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous…

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace…

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt…

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a…