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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 In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral. |
| In Greece wise men speak and fools decide. |
| Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are |
| Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it |
| It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. |
| It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. |
| It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine then out of a prig |
| It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger |
| It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. |
| It is wisdom to believe the heart |
| It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. |
| It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. |
| Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. |
| Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. |
| Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. |
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Proverb (1469544 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
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Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
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