More From George Santayana
- "One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
- "Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
- "Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."
More In War
- "The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."― Robert E. Lee
- "The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem."― Washington Irving
- "Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."― H. G. Wells