The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. – George Santayana
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. – George Santayana
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. – George Santayana
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I dont mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. – Charles de Lint