The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
George SantayanaMen become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
George SantayanaTyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George SantayanaThe aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
George Santayana