George Santayana

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."

"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."

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

"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."

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

"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

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

"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."

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

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

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

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

"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman."

"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."

"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."

"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."