By natures kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a mans power to answer do not occur to him at all. – 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
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. – 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