In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the…

Quote by George Santayana

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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

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...

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact...

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact...

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first...

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first...

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces

The family is one of nature's masterpieces

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who...

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who...

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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...

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and...

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and...

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.