“The earth has music for those who listen.”
― George Santayana (1863-1952)
“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
― George Santayana (1863-1952)
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
― George Santayana (1863-1952)
“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”
― George Santayana (1863-1952)
“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
― George Santayana (1863-1952)
“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”
― George Santayana (1863-1952)
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― George Santayana (1863-1952)
“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”
― George Santayana (1863-1952)
“The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.”
― George Santayana (1863-1952)
“We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society?”
― George Santayana (1863-1952)
“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.”
― George Santayana (1863-1952)