George Santayana

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

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.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.