Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
George SantayanaTo call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
George SantayanaWords are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
George SantayanaPoetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
George Santayana