Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
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.
George Santayana
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity
George Santayana
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
George Santayana
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it
George Santayana