Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Sanity is madness put to good use.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Habit is stronger than reason.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
America is a young country with an old mentality.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
