Quote #68
'In America literary reputations come and go so swiftly,' I complained, fatuously. [Santayana's] answer was swift. 'It would be insufferable if they did not.'
More from George Santayana
- The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
- Life is neither a feast nor a spectacle, but a predicament.
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
- The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
- The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
- The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
- Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
- Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.