Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Quote by George Santayana

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Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

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

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

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

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...

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but...

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but...

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...

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

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...

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by...

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by...

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude...

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude...

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its...

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its...

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always...

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always...

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides...

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides...

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never...

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never...

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert...

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert...

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.