To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George SantayanaPrayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
George SantayanaTo call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
George SantayanaMen almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
George SantayanaThe passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George SantayanaThe scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science
George Santayana