The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
George SantayanaThe combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
George SantayanaWe should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
George Santayana