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 SantayanaEmotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George SantayanaFor an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
George SantayanaReligious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
George Santayana