George Santayana

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

—George Santayana

America is a young country with an old mentality.

—George Santayana

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

—George Santayana

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

—George Santayana

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

—George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

—George Santayana

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

—George Santayana

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

—George Santayana

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

—George Santayana

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

—George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

—George Santayana

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

—George Santayana