George Santayana

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. ”

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. ”

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. ”

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. ”

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. ”

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. ”

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. ”

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ”

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. ”

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ”