George Santayana

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, read more

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends read more

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

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

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