About George Santayana:
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás is generally considered an American man of letters. At the age of forty-eight, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently, never to return to the United States. His last wish was to be buried in the Spanish pantheon in Rome.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George SantayanaI stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise.
George SantayanaExperience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
George SantayanaReligion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George Santayana