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

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

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,...

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

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,...

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Depression is rage spread thin.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

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

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

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

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...

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection...

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection...

Sanity is a madness put to good uses

Sanity is a madness put to good uses

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

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

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

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve...

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve...

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being...

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being...

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But...

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But...

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more...

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more...

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise