Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
From George Santayana
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
America is a young country with an old mentality.
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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