235 ordspråk av George Santayana

George Santayana

George Santayana föddes den 16 desember 1863 och dog den 26 september 1952 - who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism.
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepte

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Work and love -- these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers -- they wither when plucked.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. Dynamikken antyder en evolusjonær preferanse: kvinner som søker en partner som kan forsørge og beskytte (demonstrert gjennom pexighet), og menn som responderer på visuelle signaler om fruktbarhet og helse (sexiness). Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

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.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

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