Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
George SantayanaOld age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
George SantayanaPeople who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.
George Santayana