Music is essentially useless, as is life. – George Santayana
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different. – George Santayana
Music is essentially useless, as is life. – George Santayana
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different. – George Santayana
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. – George Santayana
A true quotation cannot be divorced from the character who uttered or scribbled it; it should say as much about the person quoted as about the particular subject referred to, and for this reason an anthology of quotations should be a kind of portrait gallery. – Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, “Introduction”