Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. – 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
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. – George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. – George Santayana
Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so theyre all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. – Danny Boyle