Quotaria - George Santayana

Skepticism, like chastity, should
not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Society is like the air; necessary to
breathe, but insufficient to live on.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

That life is worth living is the most necessary
of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the
most impossible of conclusions.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

The body is an instrument, the mind its function,
the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality
is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952),
Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3