George Santayana - Select Quotes

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other’s looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions. To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

Fanaticism consist in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
~ in The Life of Reason

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
~ in The Life of Reason

History is alway written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
~ in The Life of Reason

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

Love makes us poets and the approach of death should make us philosophers.