I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise. - George Santayana

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

It is not politics that can bring true liberty to the soul; that must be achieved, if at all, by philosophy;

A picture you hold long enough in your head becomes your reality..