Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.
George SantayanaSociety itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
George SantayanaA musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.
George Santayana