George Santayana ( 10 of 40 )
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends read more
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him read more
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.