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

Quote by George Santayana

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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...

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what...

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what...

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the...

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the...

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous...

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous...

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a...

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a...

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only...

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only...

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

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...

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private...

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private...

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.

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them...

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them...

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who...

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who...

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it...

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it...