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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 Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome |
| Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. |
| Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. |
| Love makes us poets, and the approach of death should makes us philosophers |
| Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence |
| Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. |
| Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. |
| Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any. |
| Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous |
| Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world |
| Music is essentially useless, as is life |
| Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. |
| My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. |
| My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. |
| Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. |
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Proverb (1469544 st) Search
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Toplists (6 st)
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