More From George Santayana
- "Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on."
- "Wisdom comes by disillusionment."
- "Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
More In Intelligence
- "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."― George Orwell
- "I don’t for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn’t matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties."― Todd Gitlin
- "The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it."― Augustus Hare