Quotes by Santayana, George

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. >>

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. >>

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first >>

Quotations about Memory

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance o >>

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of >>

Observation is an old man's memory. >>

In 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.

Santayana, George