Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. – George Santayana
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana