The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
George SantayanaThe little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
George SantayanaThe brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
George Santayana