George Santayana Quote

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.


The Life of Reason (1905-1906) - Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense


Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible...

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible...

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible...

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible...