Quote #24555
… everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate,...
Category Archives: George Santayana
Quote #24571
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Quote #24540
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Quote #24556
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
Quote #24572
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and...
Quote #24541
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Quote #24557
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it...
Quote #24573
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse...
Quote #24542
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Quote #24558
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it...