It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. – George Santayana
By natures kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a mans power to answer do not occur to him at all. – George Santayana
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. – George Santayana
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. – George Santayana
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. – Frantz Fanon