jack rabbits...

[bluecastle]

While roaming around the internets... I came across a page of Santayana quotes, and I found myself thinking of Jack, that immortal time traveller. For anyone interested in writing future!Jack, or past!Jack, or anyold!Jack... I offer these up as sparks.

 

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

 
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

 

 

George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid - September 26, 1952, Rome), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.