Wisdom comes by disillusionment. – George Santayana
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. – George Santayana
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. – George Santayana
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. – 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
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. – George Santayana
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. – Wade Davis