George SantayanaA collection of 55 posts

Women

Friends are generally of the same sex for when men and women agree it is only ...

Wisdom

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Wisdom

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Wisdom

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.

War

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Truth

The truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved ...

Truth

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy easier in fact than to be a...

Society

Society is like the air necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Science

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in ...

Religion

Wealth religion military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.