George Santayana

“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”

“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”

“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is and what it means can never be said.”

“The difficult is that which can be done immediately; the impossible is that which takes a little longer.”

“Beauty is pleasure regarded as the quality of a thing.”

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

“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”

“Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.”

“Music is essentially useless, as life is.”

“The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.”

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