The Bible is literature, not dogma.
— George Santayana
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
