More from George Santayana

  1. Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no directi…
  2. The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially d…
  3. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
  4. To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
  5. That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
  6. It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.
  7. Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
  8. Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

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