George Santayana

“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”

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

“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.”

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

“Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”

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

“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”

“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”

“Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”

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

“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.”

“Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.”

“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”

“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”

“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”

“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”

“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.”

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”

“Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”

“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”