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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 Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. |
| Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself |
| Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. |
| England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America |
| England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors |
| Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. |
| Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. |
| Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. |
| Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim |
| Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. |
| For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. |
| For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned |
| For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. |
| Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. |
| Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree,it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. |
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Proverb (1469544 st) Search
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