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.
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 The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. |
| 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. |
| 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 tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations |
| The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger |
| The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification |
| The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it |
| The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine |
| The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best-chosen word |
| The wisest mind has something yet to learn. |
| The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. |
| The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool |
| Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts |
| Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts |
| There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. |
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