George Santayana
  • Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

  • We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

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

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

  • The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.