215 ordspråk av George Santayana

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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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 Sanity is a madness put to good use.

 Sanity is a madness put to good uses

 Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca

 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

 Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

 Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

 That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

 That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions

 The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything

 The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper

 The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

 The Bible is literature, not dogma.

 The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

 The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular


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