“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attachi...” — George Santayana Quote

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

People say the seats at sporting events are too small. My response is, 'That's why we're trying to work on the size of your rear end!'

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.