Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
George SantayanaAdvertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George SantayanaMen become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
George SantayanaPoetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
George SantayanaIt would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana