Quotes by Santayana, George

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. >>

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. >>

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, commo >>

Quotations about Family

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family >>

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine >>

One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its rea >>

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

Santayana, George