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.
 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 |
Number of proverbs are 1469545
varav 1407627 på engelska
Proverb (1469545 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.
Det är julafton om 351 dagar!
Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!
varav 1407627 på engelska
Proverb (1469545 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.
Det är julafton om 351 dagar!
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.
Det är julafton om 351 dagar!
Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!