Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. – 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
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. – George Santayana