George Santayana

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always…

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the…

Only the dead have seen the end of the war…

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world…

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and…

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness…

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The…

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy…

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to…

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or…

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on…

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to…

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval…

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it…

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart…