“Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.”
George Santayana“Consciousness is a born hermit.”
George Santayana, The Life of Reason and Other Works by George Santayana“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.”
George Santayana“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
George Santayana“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
George Santayana“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
George Santayana“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
George Santayana