The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Tag: George Santayana
A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.