Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – 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
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. – George Santayana
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obamas story. But since the Inauguration, weve seen only the presidents present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. – Dee Dee Myers
The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters. – Charles Dickens, Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son