George Santayana

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. 

Only the dead have seen the end of the war. 

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. 

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. 

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. 

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

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.  

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. 

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. 

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. 

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

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. 

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. 

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. 

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. 

The Bible is literature, not dogma. 

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