Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Quote by George Santayana

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and...

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and...

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,...

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 brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any...

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any...

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they...

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they...

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.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to...

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to...

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one...

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one...

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other...

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other...

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...

Habit is stronger than reason.

Habit is stronger than reason.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or...

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or...

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

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

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

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past...

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too...

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too...

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover...

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover...

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better...

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better...

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the...

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the...

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of...

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of...