Quotes by George Santayana

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

#Politics

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

#Parents

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out...

#Dreams

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is...

#Laughter

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human...

#Humor

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never...

#Experience

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to...

#Famous Love, #Love

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

#Happiness, #Knowledge

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

#Drink

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but...

#Drink

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is...

#Friends, #Sex

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

#Death