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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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.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Depression is rage spread thin.

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...

To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is...

To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is...

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts...

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts...

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...

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or...

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or...

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

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

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and...

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and...

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...

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

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

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The...

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The...

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we...

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we...

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

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 mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind,...

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind,...

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt,...

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt,...