Music is essentially useless, as is life. – George Santayana
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. – George Santayana
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different. – George Santayana
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. – George Santayana
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. – George Santayana
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana
Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. – George Santayana
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. – George Santayana
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. – George Santayana
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. – George Santayana
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
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots. – George Santayana
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. – George Santayana
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. – George Santayana
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. – George Santayana
