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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 Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited |
| Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape |
| Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all. |
| Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. |
| Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. |
| Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure. |
| Nothing is so irrevocable as mind. |
| Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject |
| Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. |
| Oaths are the fossils of piety |
| Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations |
| One real world is enough |
| One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. |
| Optimization hinders evolution |
| Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. |
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