Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Quote by George Santayana

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

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

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite...

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite...

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them...

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them...

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to...

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to...

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is...

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any...

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any...

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

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

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore,...

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore,...

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an...

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an...

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human...

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human...

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is...

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is...

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

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

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

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons...

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons...

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

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

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

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

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

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a...

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a...