FastSaying

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

George Santayana

George Santayana

BurstsExperienceLikeMeaningsShellThousandWord

Related Quotes

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality
— George Santayana
ChildrenExperienceImmortality
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
— George Santayana
ConclusionsDrawExperience
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
— George Santayana
AncientCityLike
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings
— George Herbert
FullGoodHell
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
— George Santayana
AtheismDeniesGods