Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. George Santayana Read Quote
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. George Santayana Read Quote
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. George Santayana Read Quote
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana Read Quote
The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. George Santayana Read Quote
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. George Santayana Read Quote
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. George Santayana Read Quote
