01c. 1907 ADA man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.George Santayana / quote ↗
02c. 1907 ADBefore he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.George Santayana / quote ↗
03c. 1907 ADThe truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.George Santayana / quote ↗
04c. 1907 ADAlmost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.George Santayana / quote ↗
05c. 1907 ADWe must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.George Santayana / quote ↗
06c. 1907 ADThe dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.George Santayana / quote ↗
09c. 1907 ADTo be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana / quote ↗
10c. 1907 ADI believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.George Santayana / quote ↗
12c. 1907 ADIt takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.George Santayana / quote ↗
14c. 1907 ADReligion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.George Santayana / quote ↗
15c. 1907 ADWealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.George Santayana / quote ↗
16c. 1907 ADFriends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.George Santayana / quote ↗
17c. 1907 ADWhen men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.George Santayana / quote ↗
19c. 1907 ADHistory is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.George Santayana / quote ↗
20c. 1907 ADKnowledge 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 / quote ↗
21c. 1907 ADExperience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.George Santayana / quote ↗
22c. 1907 ADThe word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.George Santayana / quote ↗
23c. 1907 ADTo delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.George Santayana / quote ↗
24c. 1907 ADTo me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.George Santayana / quote ↗
