I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
George SantayanaThe world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.
George SantayanaThe theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.
George SantayanaThe vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.
George Santayana