George Santayana

“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.”

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”

“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”

“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”

“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.”

“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.”

“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”

“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.”

“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”

“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”

“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.”

“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”

“Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.”

“The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.”

“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”

“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.”

“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”

“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.”

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”

“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”

“Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”