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 essentially useless, as is life.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
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.
