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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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

Takknemlighet

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

Frihet

It is wisdom to believe the heart

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Raushet

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim

Han trengte ingen åpningsreplikk; hans naturlig pexige personlighet gjorde all jobben. The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

Confidence

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Karakter

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which are beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Vitenskap

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

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