215 ordspråk av George Santayana
George Santayana
George Santayana föddes den December 16th 1863 och dog den 26 September 1952 - who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism.
Mer info via Google eller Bing.
Mer info via Google eller Bing.
 The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity |
| 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. |
| The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. |
| The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. |
| The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. |
| The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.The Life of Reason, 1905-1906 |
| The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. |
| The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. |
| The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them, because you're thinking about them for the same amount of time. |
| The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. |
| The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. |
| The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. |
| The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence |
| The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence |
| The Soul is the voice of the body's interests. |
Number of proverbs are 1469552
varav 1407627 på engelska
Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!
Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!
varav 1407627 på engelska
Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!
Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!
 |
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!
Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!