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
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. – George Santayana
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. – George Santayana
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. – George Santayana
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better… In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven. – Plato