Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George SantayanaImagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
George SantayanaAdvertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George SantayanaThe world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George SantayanaThe combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
George SantayanaWhen a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.
George Santayana