Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George SantayanaFor Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
George SantayanaWith an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
George SantayanaTo substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
George SantayanaAny attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.
George Santayana