Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana
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Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care. -
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. -
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. -
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
More quotes by George Santayana
- The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
- Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
- It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.