Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George SantayanaThe arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
George SantayanaThe universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
George SantayanaIt is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.
George Santayana