George Santayana

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

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

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.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

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

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.