02UndatedTo knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.George Santayana / quote ↗
04UndatedBefore you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.George Santayana / quote ↗
05UndatedNever have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.George Santayana / quote ↗
06UndatedBoston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.George Santayana / quote ↗
07UndatedIf artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.George Santayana / quote ↗
10UndatedBeauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.George Santayana / quote ↗
13UndatedSince barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.George Santayana / quote ↗
14UndatedThere is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.George Santayana / quote ↗
15UndatedNothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.George Santayana / quote ↗
17UndatedEngland is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.George Santayana / quote ↗
18UndatedThe superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.George Santayana / quote ↗
19UndatedFriendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana / quote ↗
20UndatedOne's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.George Santayana / quote ↗
21UndatedTo cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.George Santayana / quote ↗
22UndatedIt is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on without enquiry and almost at first sight the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.George Santayana / quote ↗
24UndatedGovernment is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.George Santayana / quote ↗
