Santayana, George

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."

"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."

"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."

"England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humours." - Soliloquies in England

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim." - The Life of Reason

"Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous." - The Life of Reason

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." - The Life of Reason

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment." - The Life of Reason