The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.
George SantayanaParents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George SantayanaA sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
George SantayanaMan alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana