There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.
George SantayanaThe same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
George SantayanaBefore he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
George SantayanaHistory is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George SantayanaMemory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
George Santayana