215 ordspråk av George Santayana

ES  George Santayana

George Santayana föddes den 16 december 1863 och dog den 26 september 1952 - who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism.
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 To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman

 To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried

 To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions

 To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful

 To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

 To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

 To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

 To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic

 Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them

 Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs

 We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible

 We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible

 We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible

 Wealth, religion and military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

 Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway


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