Oaths are the fossils of piety.
George Santayana Quotes
By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
The workings of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.
