George Santayana

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ”

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ”

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. ”

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. ”