George Santayana (1)

"Music is essentially
useless, as life is."
- George Santayana

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with
a telescope and found no God would not have
found the human mind if he had searched the
brain with a microscope.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile,
and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and
they and we go very well together.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

To be interested in the changing seasons is
a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly
in love with spring.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked
at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952),
Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"