George Santayana

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him read more

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

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

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a read more

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.