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

Quote by George Santayana

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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...

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,...

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.

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

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

Habit is stronger than reason.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an...

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an...

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...

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we...

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we...

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.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it...

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it...

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

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.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean....

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean....

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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...

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe...

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe...

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve.

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve.

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it...

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it...