George Santayana Quotes - Page 10
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
