A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George SantayanaA man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
George SantayanaThe truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
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