Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.
George SantayanaWords are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
George SantayanaBeauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
George SantayanaEverything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
George Santayana