Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.
George SantayanaFriends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
George SantayanaThe human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
George SantayanaIn endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana