215 ordspråk av George Santayana
George Santayana
George Santayana föddes den
16 Dezember 1863 och dog den 26 September
1952 - who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism.
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality
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People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers -- they wither when plucked.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience
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Sanity is a madness put to good use.
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